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...“It’s not that they didn’t think there was a threat, or weren’t looking for it, it’s that perhaps they just didn’t have the same political priority,” said Mark Galeotti, a military expert and honorary professor...
...Svetlana, a Russian literary scholar, knew she was risking arrest when she emerged from the Moscow metro to join hundreds of others drawn to the Solovetsky Stone to mark the death of opposition leader Alexei...
...The apparent step-up in Kremlin-led intelligence operations marks a new confidence among Russia’s spymasters after the humiliating setbacks they faced in early 2022, intelligence officials and analysts said...
...“When the big retailers such as Marks & Spencer and Laura Ashley started to do off-shore sourcing in the ’80s and early ’90s, that was the death of a lot of textile companies in the UK,” Woodhouse says....
...The decision to arm the self-defence forces marks a new step in Russia’s relationship with private militias, less than two months after Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin used his own private army to...
...For asylum applicants, it really does mark a complete turning point in their life because finally the US has decided to provide them with a safe harbour....
...Should Shoigu and Gerasimov ultimately be forced out, it would mark a dramatic fall for both men — one a player in the slippery Russian political hierarchy, the other a longstanding military official who...
...Additional reporting by Courtney Weaver in Berlin...
...But while the 1960s were a hotbed of textile talent, today a new generation has been making a significant mark on the medium — from queer South African artist Igshaan Adams’s vast beaded tapestries (recently...
...He reconfigured it to tell the story of an imaginary family of Huguenot silk weavers who had lived there since it was built in 1724....
...Sending drones would mark a serious escalation of China’s involvement in the war....
Private equity chief follows Wall St megadonor Ken Griffin in abandoning former president
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...While Vance won his race, Masters lost to Democratic incumbent Mark Kelly....
...Sullivan and Plötner spoke three times, and Sullivan, Austin and Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met Biden to get final negotiating guidance....
...Bluecrest’s Mark Bradford will join hedge fund Brevan Howard next year in the newly created position of head of Treasury....
...However, two other Trump allies — US Senate candidate Blake Masters and January 6 riot-attendee, Mark Finchem, the Republican secretary of state candidate and a co-founder of the America First group, were...
...Vance ultimately won his race, but Masters lost to Democrat Mark Kelly. Richard Uihlein, another one of the GOP’s biggest donors, gave $3mn to Masters and $1mn to Walker in Georgia....
...The entrepreneur also grew his profile in Washington by hiring former regulators to liaise with financial watchdogs, including Mark Wetjen, former acting chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...
...Mark O’Connell in Slate asked what it is to play with cliché in Blarney and put-on Irishness....
...against John Fetterman in Pennsylvania; $1.6mn in Georgia against Raphael Warnock; $1.2mn in Nevada against Catherine Cortez Masto; and $1.8mn in Arizona, where the Pac spent money on ads against incumbent Mark...
...A RealClearPolitics average of polls shows Masters trailing Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly by 4 points, while in Ohio, a state that Trump won by 8 percentage points in both 2016 and 2020, Vance is up by just...
...The strident blue marks of Indian Sea (2016-17) were followed by weavers near to Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, using traditional hand-knotting techniques, and Ghazni wool from Afghanistan, which has “colour variation...
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