Our best pieces from the past year. In this selection, our favourite writing about foreign affairs.
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The price of a life
By Sophie McBain
In 2014, Islamic State fighters murdered thousands of Yazidis and kidnapped many others, mostly women and children. Their desperate relatives are now trying to buy them back.
How Vladimir Putin lost Ukraine
By Elizabeth Pond
Putin’s war cost Russia its centuries-long shared identity with its neighbour. Now, Kyiv risks betraying the spirit of the Maidan revolution.
Demolishing purgatory: what happens to the refugees when Calais’s “Jungle” is destroyed?
By Anoosh Chakelian
We meet evicted inhabitants of Europe’s largest slum, …read more
Source: New Statesman
