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Memorial

On Europe
20 years after London’s deadliest bombings, extremist threat grows more complex
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Historians come together to uncover disturbing aspects of Polish and Eastern European shared history.
Ukraine
War in Ukraine spurs new bonds between historians of shared Soviet past
The monument to “Iron Felix” Dzerzhinsky, the founder and patron saint of the Soviet secret police.
History
In the removal of a Soviet symbol of oppression, Russians see lessons for the US
Pulse
Conflict
One year later, remembering the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting
Culture
Why Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th century feminist rock star
Faced with western sanctions, the Kremlin has pushed for a renewed sense of patriotism among younger Russians. At the National Unity Day celebrations in Moscow, students sport buttons that read, "An attack on Russia is an attack on me."
Global Politics
Human rights group Memorial is too ‘inconvenient’ for Putin’s new Russia