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July 07, 2019 | The Times
Soviet Nostalgia Hunters Flock to Transnistria Nuclear Bunker
A forgotten nuclear bunker in a remote corner of Moldova is the latest must-see attraction on the Soviet nostalgia trail.
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June 19, 2019 | The Times
Crimean Tatars Feel Familiar Threat of Persecution
A crackdown against Muslims with links to an Islamist organization has parallels to a Stalinist purge in the 1940s, writes Hannah Lucinda Smith in Simferopol.
June 19, 2019 | The Times
Graves of Britain’s Crimean War Dead Are Desecrated, Exploited and Forgotten
Tensions between Russia and the West mean both sides have let the memories of Crimean War dead fade.
June 19, 2019 | The Times
Crimean Camp for Young Communists Reopens With £160m Facelift
This summer, 45,000 children from 57 countries will visit the Artek centre near Yalta. For three weeks, they will live the lifestyle once considered the model for young communists, sleeping in dorms and eating meals in huge canteens while wearing color-coded uniforms.
March 16, 2018 | The Times
Children in Civil War Denounce Teachers Who Swap Marks for Sex
As a sex-for-grades scandal blights schools in the Central African Republic, a young group of pupils fights this abuse and corruption to champion the rights of children on the margins
November 28, 2017 | The Times
The Next Mugabe: Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe's Brutal Enforcer
The most feared man in the country is set to become the next Zimbabwean president. A year ago, he gave a rare interview to Martin Fletcher.
June 16, 2009 | The Times
From Corporate America to the Horn of Africa, Money Makes the World Go Round
The dusty, potholed streets of Hargeysa in Somaliland are filled with battered cars and ambling pedestrians. The tangled birds' nests of wires that cling to every telegraph pole are testament to a boom in telephony, informal stalls line the roads, selling imported goods and Ethiopia-grown khat, a plant chewed as a stimulant - and behind bricks of local currency sit the money changers.
June 12, 2009 | The Times
Foreigners are the Real Pirates, Says Former Somali Fisherman
The first time Farah Ismail Eid set out to hijack a ship off the coast of Somalia his boat was easily outrun. On the second occasion he kept pace but his boarding ladder was too short. On the third attempt he was captured.
Eid, 38, from Eyl on the Somalia coast, is one of an estimated 1,500 fishermen-turned-pirates who have made the seas between the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean the most dangerous shipping route in the world.