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The road not taken

Declassified U.S. government documents and Russian declassified documents detail the Russian objections that NATO expansion would (1) threaten Russian security, (2) undermine the idea of

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European triptych

First panel: On his way to Malta for his summit with President George Bush in December 1989, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev stopped at the Vatican

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Tibdil għal ippjanar serju

“Jekk il-gvern irid iħares l-ambjent b’dawn il-bidliet fil-liġijiet tal-ippjanar għax mhemmx fosthom il-proposta tal-Perit Vince Cassar li bħalissa qed imexxi l-Awtorità għall-Ambjent u r-Riżorsi biex

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“A smell of death”

Just over a month after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a US Navy office visited the city and reported “a smell

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Mirage of the common home

On 1st August 1975 all the European nations (except Albania), together with the United States and Canada signed the Helsinki Final Act of  the Conference

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