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I meet up with Alexey Gusev, the grandson of a victim of Stalin’s Terror, in a park in front of Kyiv’s Polytechnic Institute, just outside the city centre. Gusev, a heating and ventilation engineer, is well-prepared for our meeting – he sent me a short biography, complete with photographs, of his grandmother beforehand. In 1938, […]

Click:A32100-1 When the USSR collapsed, the issue of economic planning seemed to be settled once and for all. In the struggle between the market and the plan, the former had won a decisive victory. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the verdict is not so obvious anymore. Throughout the world, academic and […]

Click:NBA live zhibo Saudi women could soon be allowed to travel the world freely. Saudi Arabia may ease laws requiring women to seek consent from their “male guardian” before travelling internationally, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.  The country maintains a male guardianship system that requires women of all ages to obtain the consent of a designated […]

Audiences enjoying Wimbledon this summer might not have noticed this small but important change to how female tennis players are referred to by umpires.  Previously the umpire calling results would say “game Miss… “or game Mrs…” throughout each set, rather than just saying their last name as with men for example, “game, Federer”.    As […]

Jeremy Hunt’s pitch to the Tory faithful appears to be that he’s the “serious” one: the earnest ex-head boy with a grasp of detail and an ability to get things done. After all, he tells us, he’s the man who “saved the NHS”. Even the liberal media repeats these ideas. The New Statesman is impressed […]

Women in the U.S. are fighting against restrictive abortion bans, yet women in other countries have been living with the consequences of restrictive abortion bans for decades. Abortion for any reason has been illegal in El Salvador since 1997. It’s one of six countries that has a total abortion ban, but El Salvador is special […]

This article is part of ourEconomy's 'Decolonising the economy' series. Amazon.com Inc. was brought to court by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2017 for transfer pricing discrepancies. In 2005 and 2006, the multinational tech company had transferred $255 million in royalty payments to its tax haven in Luxembourg, but according to the IRS […]

Nermin Subašić was only 19 years old when paramilitary groups butchered him and scattered his bones in and around Srebrenica. Nermin was not the only one. More than 8,300 men, women and children were brutally slaughtered during the Srebrenica genocide, one of the darkest most heinous pages of Europe’s recent history. Their stories might have […]

Police conduct is, to put it lightly, a complicated issue – and one that has dominated headlines in America for years. Things can get particularly fraught when police are supposed to enforce the law against fellow law-enforcement officers. The reality is, holding the police responsible for bad, and illegal, behavior often doesn’t happen. But in the age of police […]

In October 2016, Boris Johnson, the recently-appointed foreign secretary, left Whitehall behind to fly to Italy for a private weekend break. He was invited to the luxurious Umbrian villa of his wealthy friend, Evgeny Lebedev – the Russian owner of London’s Evening Standard newspaper. It was not the first time Boris had been to the […]