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Report: Ukrainian Children Sent To Indoctrination Camps In Crimea And Russia’s Far East

A new report documents how Russia has been sending thousands of Ukrainian children to different Russian run re-education camps, where they are being indoctrinated with pro-Kremlin views.

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Geopolitics Russia-Ukraine War

Inside Russia’s Revival Of Stalinist “Filtration Camps”

Though different than concentration camps constructed by Nazis, the “filtration” facilities nevertheless are a return to another brutal history, reopened under Putin, and ramped up since the invasion of Ukraine.

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Ideas Migrant Lives

Merkel To Moria: Is Accepting Migrants A Moral Imperative?

In mid-September, fires destroyed Greece’s largest migrant camp, the vastly overcrowded Moria facility on the island of Lesbos. The disaster left some 13,000 already desperate people with no shelter at all, and raises new questions about Europe’s collective responsibilities toward migrants five years after German Chancellor Angela Merkel famously opened her nation’s doors to fleeing […]

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Geopolitics Society

More Than A Witness: Revisiting Primo Levi 100 Years Since His Birth

The Italian writer’s work is best known for his role recounting the horror of concentration camps. He was that man, and so much more.

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Society

Karelia Postcard: Germany’s Forgotten Female Prisoners Of War

Towards the end of World War II, 800,000 German women and girls were deported to forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. A visit to the abandoned camps near the Russian-Finnish border.

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Final Stop: Why Syrian Refugees Have Ended Up In Gaza

Khaled’s family is one of the 190 from Syria that have recently moved to poor and isolated Gaza. Doors elsewhere for refugees are closing, especially to the Palestinian minority fleeing Syria.

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Geopolitics

Along The Turkey-Syria Border, Erdogan’s Own Are Turning Against Him

In the southern Turkish town of Reyhanli, near the Syrian border, anger is rising against Prime Minister Erdogan’s support of Syrian rebels.

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Society

No Signs Of Libyan Healing – Now Its Ex-Gaddafi Supporters Living In Mortal Fear

TRIPOLI – Nafisa Muhammad knows all too well that vengeance is alive and well in post-revolution Libya. “One of my brothers was kidnapped by rebels from Misrata at Benghazi airport,” she says. “On his first day at a local detention center, he was beaten to death.” The 31-year-old woman now lives in a refugee camp […]

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