Kremlin TV Descends Into Screaming Match Over Putin’s War Failures

There’s no hiding the cracks that have formed on Russian airwaves over the war in Ukraine any longer.
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A 1986 dystopian Russian novel basically predicted Vladimir Putin

"Moscow 2042," by Vladimir Voinovich, envisioned a future in which Russia was ruled by an ex-KGB agent who eerily resembles the current Russian president.
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Travel wishlist: A guide to 2022’s happiest countries!

The year 2022 marks the 10th anniversary of the World Happiness Report! The report measures happiness on three main factors—life evaluations, positive emotions, and negative emotions.Let’s checkout the top 10 happiest nations in the world in 2022.
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Why is China appointing judges to combat climate change?

Why is China appointing thousands of judges to environmental courts and training prosecutors to bring cases to them, even if it means suing the government? Eco-lawyer James Thornton takes us inside the country's growing effort to use the power of the courts to address environmental problems -- a little-known story that indicates China could become a champion of legal action on climate.
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Attempted Aboriginal massacres took place as recently as 1981, historian says

Alice Springs mass poisoning claimed two lives and left many in hospital but details are scarce, showing challenges of verifying frontier killings
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Cash for grass: Colorado bill would pay to abandon lawns

DENVER (AP) — Facing a historic megadrought all across the American West with no end in sight, Colorado lawmakers, looking for easy and effective ways to conserve water, set their sights on Kentucky Blue Grass.
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Could Putin actually fall?

What history teaches us about how autocrats lose power — and how Putin might hang on.
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The Spectacular Collapse of Putin’s Disinformation Machinery

A few critical errors have brought down Russia's complex and objectively brilliant war of influence in the West.
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Harriet Tubman Is Famous for Being an Abolitionist and Political Activist, but She Was Also a Naturalist

The Underground Railroad conductor's understanding of botany, wildlife biology, geography and astronomy allowed her to guide herself and others to safety
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The Weakness of the Despot

An expert on Stalin discusses Putin, Russia, and the West.
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How badly will Russia's war torpedo hopes for global climate cooperation?

Russia was an international foot dragger on climate solutions before it invaded Ukraine, but it was cooperating on Arctic issues. Are those days over?
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How China Embraces Russian Propaganda and Its Version of the War

In much of the world, Russia is losing the information war over Ukraine. In China, though, it’s winning big.
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Ukraine: Watching the war on Russian TV - a whole different story

The war in Ukraine has led to outrage in the West, but in Russia TV viewers see a very different story.
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Here Are 20 Years of UFO Sightings We Got From the Canadian Government

VICE World News obtained nearly 300 pages of documents through freedom of information requests that include strange sightings from pilots, soldiers, and police officers.
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