Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine goes well beyond the battlefield. Russia is trying to destroy Ukrainian identity by imposing the Russian language in occupied areas, as a prime weapon in Moscow’s policy of “Russification.”
Tag: culture
May 11-12 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Blaming Vladimir Putin for the first time for a shortage of ammunition, what did Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin call the Russian president? “Stupid” / “Grandpa” / “Vlad The Impaler” / “Pathetic Putin” 2. Which country was readmitted […]
May 6-7 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. What two countries has Moscow accused of orchestrating the drone attack on the Kremlin? 2. Which news outlet launched an emergency radio service to help civilians in war-torn Sudan? 3. Why is soccer superstar Lionel Messi in trouble […]
April 29-30 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Which two world leaders spoke for the first time this week since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? 2. Joe Biden officially announced that he is running again for U.S. president in 2024. If reelected, how old would he be […]
April 22-23 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. In which east African country has intense fighting broken out between the country’s army and rival paramilitary forces? 2. After his talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, which world leader said the U.S. should stop “encouraging” war in […]
Turkey holds key elections next month. Many who were exiled over the years have returned with optimism, only to be jailed. Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran says from now on, she will only go back on her own terms.
April 15-16 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Which world leader is visiting Xi Jinping in China this week? 2. What anniversary did U.S. President Joe Biden mark in Belfast? 3. Iconic fashion designer Mary Quant has died at age 93. What garment is she associated […]
Top chefs in Bogotá and other big cities in Colombia are rediscovering and updating the country’s traditional fare to celebrate local ingredients.
April 9-10 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. In Tuesday’s indictment on alleged hush money payments, how many criminal charges is U.S. President Donald Trump facing? 2. Which neighboring country did Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky visit? 3. France’s Bernard Arnault replaced Elon Musk on top of […]
April 1-2 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Moscow’s FSB security service arrested a reporter from which major U.S. publication? 2. Where did King Charles III go on his first overseas trip as monarch? 3. What country woke up in two different time zones amid a […]
From ballet to opera to classic literature, Russia has turned its culture into an instrument for its own expansion. The West must fight back, Ukraine’s culture minister Oleksandr Tkachenko writes in an op-ed in German daily Die Welt. It’s time to stop supporting Russian artists and seek out Ukrainians instead.
March 25-26 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Despite general support for Russia on his trip to Moscow, what important trade deal did Xi Jinping wind up not signing with President Putin? 2. The French government faces widespread anger over its decision to raise the legal […]
March 18-19 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Over what body of water did a Russian fighter jet collide with a U.S. drone? 2. Protests rocked Pakistan after whose attempted arrest? 3. How much did Europe’s biggest bank HSBC pay for SVB’s UK arm, after its […]
The ongoing strike of garbage collectors in France shows us why we try so hard to hide how much garbage we throw out. As trash piles up in the streets, philosopher Gaspard Koenig reminds us that it wouldn’t be so hard to recycle and compost more of it.
March 11-12 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. What footage from social media has Ukraine asked the International Criminal Court to investigate? 2. Which country saw mass protests that led to the withdrawal of a controversial “foreign agents” draft law? 3. What update has Apple announced […]
In India, questions related to menstrual health are largely taboo, and routinely ignored by authorities. Elsewhere in the world, there is some progress on the issue, though much more is needed.
Umeå in northern Sweden is a veritable feminist city. And the initiatives go much deeper than just policies and promises — they shape how the city is built.
March 4-5 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. To which eastern city has Ukraine decided to send reinforcements? 2. Which country has started the construction of a 200-kilometer wired fence on its border with Russia? 3. What “radical change” did Kim Jong-un say North Korea needed? […]
While the IOC decides whether to let Moscow’s athletes compete in the 2024 Summer Games, Russian film directors will again be fighting for the right to show their films.
February 25-26 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. During his anti-West diatribe of his state of nation address, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s withdrawal from what treaty? 2. China rolled out a monthly cash subsidy for low-income residents, worth: .80 / / 0 3. Why […]
February 18-19 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Two female national leaders resigned in recent days. Moldova’s Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita and …? 2. Who went to China in what was his country’s first state visit in 20 years? 3. What shape was the flying object […]
February 11-12 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Who admitted there were “shortcomings” in the response to the deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria? 2. On his London-Paris-Brussels tour, what was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s big request from EU leaders? 3. Why was Disney forced […]
The number of indigenous people in Russia has been declining for decades, but the war in Ukraine has accelerated the trend. Already vulnerable, indigenous groups are more likely to be mobilized and bear the brunt of Western sanctions.
The officers charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols were not your everyday uniformed patrol officers. Rather, they were part of an elite squad: Memphis Police Department’s SCORPION team. A rather tortured acronym for “Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods,” SCORPION is a crime suppression unit – that is, officers detailed […]
February 4-5 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. The U.S is readying more than billion worth of military aid for Ukraine. What will the package include for the first time? 2. Which country suffered one of its bloodiest attacks in memory when more than 100 were […]
A widely mocked tweet by the Associated Press tells its reporters to avoid dehumanizing labels such as “the poor” or “the French”. But one French writer replies that the real dehumanizing threat is when open conversation becomes impossible.
January 28-29 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. What has angered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a recent Stockholm protest? 2. Who was the latest U.S. politician to have confidential documents found at their place? 3. Which famed site did Peru close due to protests, […]
January 21-22 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. What is Germany being pressed to deliver to Ukraine? 2. What did Jacinda Ardern cite as the main reason for her decision to step down as New Zealand prime minister? 3. Which country reported a decline in its […]
January 14-15 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Where was former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro while his supporters were storming government buildings in Brasilia? 2. What was found in Washington, D.C., that left U.S. President Joe Biden “surprised”? 3. Which world record did Elon Musk just […]
January 7-8 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Who did Russia blame for a deadly Ukrainian missile strike on Makiivka that it said killed 89 servicemen? 2. U.S. Republican leader Kevin McCarthy repeatedly failed to secure enough support in the ballots to win the House of […]
The baguette is now on UNESCO’s cultural heritage list. But France’s independent bakeries are struggling to survive amid rising energy costs and competition from larger chains.
The Ukrainian Culture Minister has called for a total boycott of Russian culture. Such a move should be resisted because it ignores culture’s potential to challenge power.
December 24-25 The Worldcrunch Today & Le Weekend crew is taking a short break, and will be back on Jan. 2, 2023. As always, we’ll continue publishing new stories through the holidays on Worldcrunch! Happy end of the year to all ? OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this […]
December 17-18 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Which South American country is in turmoil following the removal and arrest of its president, Pedro Castillo? 2. What is the nickname of Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout who was exchanged for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in […]
December 10-11 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Twenty-five people were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of plotting to overthrow what country’s government? 2. Why was Peru’s ousted president detained by the police in Lima after his impeachment? 3. Indonesia’s new criminal code included what surprising ban […]
December 3-4 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. What did Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko decide to do across his city, to prevent Putin from “stealing our Christmas”? 2. What item became the rallying symbol for China’s ongoing anti-lockdown protests? 3. What word, another way of saying […]
The director of the 1997 episode complained that TV executives are being “too sensitive.”
November 26-27 ️ STARTER How Iranian protesters unmasked the regime’s old game of “divide and rule” Iran’s clerical regime has worked hard over 40 years to set Iranians against each other on multiple bases, and must now watch a nation united in opposition to itself and breaking its red lines, notably those set around gender, […]
November 19-20 ️ STARTER Will Iran’s uprising trigger an Islamic reformation across the Middle East? The showdown between Iranian protesters and the clerical regime is another episode in Iran’s clash of theocracy and Western-style secular modernity. Its outcomes will reverberate across the entire Islamic world, so the West needs to pay attention, writes Elahe Boghrat […]
November 12-13 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. What did actor and activist Sean Penn “loan” to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as they met in Kyiv? 2. Which Latin American dictator was seen shaking hands with U.S. envoy John Kerry and French President Emmanuel Macron at […]