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By Safira Rachmadian, BA International Relations and Global Development On Monday 14 November, leaders of the G20 nations arrived in Bali, Indonesia for the annual G20 summit. This year’s summit has been overshadowed by peak political unrest concerning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as increasing tensions between
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By Gunda Pavilonytė, BA Chinese On 24 February, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered military forces to enter Eastern Ukraine. Residents began to seek shelter in underground stations after being woken by explosions in the early hours of the morning. Putin’s reasoning behind his actions are to ‘demilitarize and de-Nazify’
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By Olympia Belengri, BA International Relations and Development Studies The war sparked by the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014 reformed the structure of the Ukrainian army. Due to underfunding of the Ukrainian armed forces, military operations against Russian aggression were initially formed partially out of grass-roots volunteer battalions. The
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Yun Hin Choi, BA History and Politics The past several weeks have marked the international carnival where we’ve seen the world’s leaders gather for a number of lavish occasions, kicked off by the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in China and ended with the G20 meeting in Brisbane,