Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
‘I longed for the moment you would write’: the gulag penpals whose love lasted 60 years
Vladimir was sentenced to 10 years’ hard labour. Ivanna was Prisoner 108, and his secret correspondent. She looks back on a love affair with a man she never metIn 1953, a young Ivanna Maszczak trudged through the Siberian labour camp in which she was serving a 10-year sentence. She was 28 years old, 5ft tall, and hungry. Her shoes were wet...
Ukraine releases MH17 plane crash ‘suspect’
Vladimir Tsemakh, who was arrested in June, may be part of prisoner swap deal with RussiaA Ukrainian court has released a potential suspect and key witness in the shooting down of MH17,as Russia’s president said the two countries were working on a deal to swap prisoners.Vladimir Tsemakh had bragged on video of commanding an anti-air brigade...
Ferrexpo says funds to Ukrainian charity may have been misappropriated
London-listed mining firm says none of its directors or employees are implicatedLondon-listed mining company Ferrexpo has found that money donated by the company to a Ukrainian charity may have been “misappropriated” – but said that none of its directors or employees were implicated.The company, which mines iron ore in Ukraine for the steel...
Lives at risk from surge in measles across Europe, experts warn
Measles kills 37 in first half of 2019 as number of cases tops figure for whole of last yearThe dramatic surge in measles across Europe is putting lives at risk, experts have said, as official figures showed the number of cases in the first half of 2019 outstripped that for the whole of last year.Data released by the World Health Organization...
ABC’s Sabra Lane breaks down on air over child abandoned by surrogate parents
Outpouring of support for AM presenter, who was overcome by emotion after broadcasting heart-wrenching Ukraine story ABC Radio’s AM presenter Sabra Lane was unable to hide her emotions on Tuesday morning after broadcasting a heart-wrenching story about a little girl who was abandoned in the Ukraine by her American surrogate...
New video evidence of Russian tanks in Ukraine revealed
Research group Forensic Architecture collected footage to use in European court of human rightsNewly collated evidence documenting Russian military involvement in the conflict in Ukraine will be used to bolster legal claims against the Russian state by Ukrainian volunteer fighters.Forensic Architecture, a London-based research group, has...
Food on the frontline: finding common ground through cooking
Giles Duley photographs people in war zones. More importantly he cooks and eats with them firstGiles Duley, a 47-year-old photographer, is no stranger to some of the world’s most desperate places. His work on the impact of war has taken him to Lebanon, South Sudan, Ukraine and Afghanistan, where in 2011 he lost both legs and his left arm...
Spinning conspiracy theories won’t help us prevent another Chernobyl | Serhii Plokhy
Despite the TV show and the author’s landmark book, the truth about Chernobyl is still contestedDid it really happen? Was it really so bad? Is it true that they were so unprepared? These are the questions I have heard the past few months in connection with the stunning success of the miniseries Chernobyl. It brought to life the tragedy of...
‘They have bullets. We have the city’: how protestors weaponised Kiev
The illustrated city: in late 2013 Ukraine’s capital exploded in revolt against the government – with protestors using the very fabric of the city as their armoury … …read more Source: The...
Yuval Noah Harari admits approving censored Russian translation
Sapiens author said he had authorised revisions to all his books in order to reach ‘diverse audiences around the world’Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari has acknowledged that he authorised replacing criticism of Vladimir Putin with criticism of Donald Trump in the Russian edition of his bestseller, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, saying...
