Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Manchester has a Soviet statue of Engels. Shame no one asked the city’s Ukrainians | Kevin Bolton
The monument is a piece of propaganda. Efforts to celebrate it have ignored the voices of all those Mancunians who suffered under communism• Kevin Bolton is an archives consultant living in StockportI first heard that Manchester’s city centre had a new statue when pictures appeared on my Twitter timeline on Monday morning. The media...
MH17 anniversary: Australian families attend unveiling of memorial for victims
Relatives vow to keep fighting for truth as 2,000 friends and relatives attend emotional ceremony near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport Three years after the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Buk missile over Ukraine, friends and relatives of the 38 Australian citizens and residents who died were among the 2,000 people who...
There will be no justice for Flight MH17 until we contain Russian financial power | David Patrikarakos
No one has been arrested for the deaths of 298 civilians three years ago, a state of affairs in which London, the money-laundering capital, is complicit• David Patrikarakos is an author and academicThree years ago on Monday, I stood in Maidan square in Kiev, among the tents and barricades erected by a hardcore of protesters still camped out...
Minnesota man, 98, wanted for Nazi war crimes in Poland but son decries ‘charade’
Michael Karkoc is sought by Polish authorities over the massacre of 44 civilians in 1944, but his son Andriy tells the Guardian his father is entirely innocentAs the history of Nazi hunting approaches its inevitable end, it could seem anticlimactic that one of its final chapters concerns a 98-year-old resident of an assisted living facility in a...
Irina Ratushinskaya obituary
Russian poet and dissident who was sentenced to seven years in a labour camp by the Soviet authorities and found refuge in the UK in the 1980sEarly on the morning of 10 October 1986, Igor Gerashchenko, the husband of the dissident Soviet poet Irina Ratushinskaya, phoned Keston College, the centre for the study of religion in communist countries...
Hackers who targeted Ukraine clean out bitcoin ransom wallet
‘NotPetya’ ransomware creators move £8,000 in bitcoin, leaving observers uncertain over the attack’s motive The hackers behind the NotPetya ransomware, which wiped computers in more than 60 countries in late June, have moved more than £8,000 worth of bitcoins out of the account used to receive the ransoms.The transfer has...
First meeting for Trump and Putin: what will the power dynamics reveal?
World awaits signals at G20 summit as Kremlin bid for leverage over the Oval Office confronts a hemmed-in US presidentHamburg will this week play host to one of the strangest encounters in modern history, when Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet on the margins of the G20 summit.It will be their first meeting as presidents but less clear – and...
NotPetya ransomware attack ‘not designed to make money’
Digital security researchers say malware attack that spread from Ukraine appeared to be focused on damaging IT systemsA ransomware attack that affected at least 2,000 global users on Tuesday appears to have been deliberately engineered to damage IT systems rather than extort funds, according to security researchers.The attack began in Ukraine,...
Trump’s ex-campaign chief registers as foreign agent over Ukraine work
Paul Manafort registers with US justice department over $17m of consulting work he did with Ukrainian party in 2012-14Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has registered with the US justice department as a foreign agent for political consulting work he did for a Ukrainian political party, acknowledging that he coached...
‘Petya’ ransomware attack strikes companies across Europe
Ukraine’s government, banks and electricity grid hit hardest by cyber-attack, but companies from Saint-Gobain in France to Rosneft in Russia also affectedA major cyber-attack has struck large companies across Europe, with Ukraine’s government, banks, state electricity grid, telephone companies and even metro particularly badly...
