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How Far Would Biden Go to Defend Ukraine Against Russia?
Russia has not explicitly threatened to invade Ukraine, but it has complained of alleged provocations from the Ukrainian side of…
Lithuania Welcomes Belarusians as It Rebuffs Middle Easterners
RUKLA, Lithuania — The emigrants hitchhiked overnight to the Dysna River, the border of their native Belarus. They thought they…
Trying to Blur Memories of the Gulag, Russia Targets a Rights Group
MOSCOW — In the days after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the upheaval and uncertainty that gripped Russia were…
After Time in U.S. Prisons, Maria Butina Now Sits in Russia’s Parliament
MOSCOW — When Russia’s lower house of Parliament, or Duma, assembled last month for the first time following elections in…
How a Dispute Over Groceries Led to Artillery Strikes in Ukraine
HRANITNE, Ukraine — Artillery shells fired by Russian-backed separatists shrieked into this small town deep in the flatlands of eastern…