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See also Russia in 2014 David (Jones): Crisis in Ukraine: Splitting Ukraine could prove the best solution vs David Kilgour: Crisis in Ukraine: A lesson in Finnish history may be the key to a peaceful conclusion […]

The brave saga of Timbuktu: (National Geographic) Abdel Kader Haidara had made it his life’s work to document Mali’s illustrious past. When the jihadists came, he led the rescue operation to save 350,000 manuscripts. 13 February […]

Asia Society China File China in 2014: The three Rs By Robert Daly, director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center. (CNN) Three stories dominate American coverage of China […]

Remote, oil-rich Shetland elbows way into Scotland’s independence vote (Reuters UK) As the Scottish independence vote nears, Shetland’s council has joined forces with two other island councils, Orkney and the Western Isles, to ask for greater […]

“Every Major’s Terrible,” as Performed by an Actual University Chorus Randall Munroe’s cynical ode to undergraduate indecision is a clever parody of Gilbert & Sullivan’s I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General, performed by […]