Today it’s all the rage to wax nostalgic for the late USSR. But history is flexible. Today it’s one thing; tomorrow it will be another — people will write whatever is needed. Perhaps only our personal memories will soon become the best and most objective source of information about the past. Soviet culinary habits are…
Women’s rights activists across the globe on Saturday marked International Safe Abortion Day. But for many in Russia, the occasion was a bitter reminder of how far the country’s government has backtracked on its once-liberal abortion policies, leaving thousands of women with increasingly limited access to safe, affordable and timely abortion care. This week, the…
Two Russian strikes on a hospital in the Ukrainian border city of Sumy killed seven people Saturday, regional authorities said. Sumy lies across the border from Russia’s Kursk region, where Kyiv launched a surprise offensive early last month. The first strike killed 1 person and damaged several floors of a hospital, and after that, patients…