Their purchases of Russian crude are undermining the West’s efforts to isolate the Kremlin and upending the global oil markets.
Tag: Russia
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In Ukraine and New York, Pride Must Get Political
The boundary between freedom and oppression is thin.
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The Stranded Sons of Shakhtar Donetsk
One of Ukraine’s top soccer teams rushed its youth academy players out of the path of war in February. Months later, many of the boys are stuck in a lonely limbo.
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Russian Elites Show No Sign of Broad Challenge to Putin
Many business owners and intellectuals fled Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, but others stayed behind, struggling to redefine their lives. Their diverging choices do not add up to a broad challenge to Vladimir Putin’s war.
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Russia Gains in Eastern Ukraine, Threatening to Overrun Luhansk
The seizure of three strategic villages confronts Ukrainian commanders with a grim choice: fight on and risk encirclement or retreat and lose the last major centers in the region.