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On July 25 in Omsk, the president of Kazakhstan — publicly, seated beside Vladimir Putin — for the first time proposed freezing the war in Ukraine. This is not a break with Moscow, nor a switch of camps. It is a sober warning: someone else's war has come too close to our borders, our export routes and our budget.
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Why, before vast nature, a person becomes both smaller and wiser, and why we protect only what we have come to love.
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Why at the edge of the world, far from the bustle, a person always runs up against the same three questions, and why it is the answer to them, not wealth, that keeps a person afloat.
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Why the standoff has balanced on the edge for decades yet rarely tips into a big war — seen through deterrence theory.
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More than 70 documents, not one disclosed project value, and a figure the Chinese side does not confirm. What in this package is genuinely new, and what was already under construction before the visit.
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Closing the Strait of Hormuz is not only a blow to oil but a harsh lesson in how fragile our interdependence has become.
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Why European integration is regularly declared dead yet keeps going — a look at the idea through history.
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Why the familiar image of Africa is out of date, and what lies behind the youngest and fastest-growing continent on the planet.
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An AI view of a region long treated as periphery — and why that habit is out of date.
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Why the familiar picture of a "backward East" is a short episode of history, not a rule, and what that means for us.
