Curated Video
WRAP Litvinenko investigation, Reid, Lavrov, police, UK buildings examined
Moscow, Russia - 4 December 2006
1. Wide of plane on tarmac
2. Wide interior pan of airport terminal
3. Close-up of British Airways sign
4. Wide of people waiting for people in arrivals area
5. Mid of man waiting
6. Various of Scotland...
Curated Video
BRUNEI: APEC LEADERS BEGIN SUMMIT
English/Nat
Pacific Rim leaders opened their annual summit on Wednesday in Brunei, the tiny, oil-rich sultanate on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, with poor nations vowing to stand firm against rich countries who are pushing for a...
Curated Video
Yukos shares lower, analyst comments
1. Moscow Interbank Currency exchange (MICEX) exteriors
2. Exchange sign
3. Operation hall
4. Clocks
5. Brokers
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vadim Egorov, MICEX spokesman:
"To midday shares of Yukos fell more than ten percent. Because of that...
Curated Video
RUSSIA: ROSTOV-ON-DON: COSSACK COLLEGE
Russian/Nat
As Russia's war in Chechnya rages on, Russian Cossacks, a breed of ancient warriors, hopes the wave of anti-Islamic feeling that has swept the country will help restore the status they once enjoyed under the czars.
Cossacks...
Curated Video
President Putin meets PM Vukic, excerpts of news conference
Russian President Vladimir Putin held bilateral talks with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade on Thursday, as part of his state visit to Russia's Slavic ally.
Putin is in Serbia to convince the Balkan nation to commit to...
TED Talks
TED: How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history | Gerard Ryle
Gerard Ryle led the international team that divulged the Panama Papers, the 11.5 million leaked documents from 40 years of activity of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that have offered an unprecedented glimpse into the scope and...
TED Talks
TED: Stand with Ukraine in the fight against evil | Garry Kasparov
Ukraine is on the front line of a war between freedom and tyranny, says chess grandmaster and human rights advocate Garry Kasparov. In this blistering call to action, he traces Vladimir Putin's rise to power and details his own path from...
Curated Video
Madeleine Albright's Brooches
The U.S.’s first female Secretary of State used her collection of brooches to get her point across when meeting with foreign leaders, a practice that became known as “Pin Diplomacy.”
The Guardian
On the Ukraine frontline: 'Only the dead aren't afraid'
With tensions escalating along the border with Russia, Luke Harding visits troops in Ukraine's Donbas region to gauge the mood ahead of a possible invasion. The war here has continued since 2014, when pro-Russian separatists seized...
The Guardian
Putin's Russia: from KGB agent to Kremlin operator
As Vladimir Putin wages a bloody and unrelenting war in Ukraine, Guardian foreign correspondent Luke Harding examines Putin's unlikely path to the Russian presidency. From his humble beginnings in St Petersburg to his mysterious and...
Curated Video
What is NATO?
NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a coalition of democratic capitalist countries from Europe and North America. It remains perhaps the single biggest deterrent against nuclear war today.
Vlogbrothers
Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War?
In which John explores historical and political context to understand what caused the Russian government's invasion of Ukraine, and how we arrived at this awful now. There is a LOT of misinformation in comments, so why not read directly...
History Hit
The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory Maclean
9 November 1989 was one of the most significant dates in 20th century history. The Berlin Wall fell, changing the entire geopolitical situation and marking the start of the decline of Russia's world standing. Author Rory MacLean was...
AllTime 10s
10 Ways Donald Trump Has Changed The World
Donald Trump has had a huge impact on not just American Politics since his Inaguration, but on the entire world stage. From Twitter politics to that business with North Korea, here's 10 Ways Donald Trump has changed the world.
Curated Video
The next global arms race?
America and Russia have pulled out of the INF, a cold war-era weapons treaty. Why is this significant and what does this mean for global stability?
Weird History
The Kursk | What Happened to the Russian Sub That Exploded
When the Russian submarine Kursk sank in 2000, it was a conspiracy theorist's dream come true. Immediately, conflicting stories started pouring in from official sources, ranging from a US submarine ramming the Kursk to a potential...
The Economist
Top secret: Russian spies in America
Russia is accused of trying to influence the US election, which led to the Trump presidency. In a rare interview one of the Soviet Union's highest-ranking KGB spies talks about the long-standing practice of subverting Western democracy.
Step Back History
Putin: The New Czar of Russia
Vladimir Putin just won his fourth term as president of the Russian Federation. Let's talk about who this guy is and if we should be worried (we should)
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Benjamin Abelow - How the West Brought War to Ukraine - Part 1
Benjamin Abelow holds a B.A. in modern European history from the University of Pennsylvania, where he participated in an honors seminar on U.S. Cold War foreign policy taught by the scholar Marc Tractenberg. He then worked in Washington,...
Easy Languages
Easy Filipino 14 - World leaders at APEC Summit in Manila
Learn Filipino with Easy Filipino! Riz asks people around College of Saint Benilde about the upcoming APEC Summit in Manila with world leaders President Barack Obama, President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister...
The Telegraph
Dispatch: Inside Borodyanka, the town with a death toll feared higher than Bucha | Ukraine
The Telegraph's Political and Defence Correspondent, Danielle Sheridan, reports from the town of Borodyanka, a town destroyed by Russian forces. No one yet knows the death toll in Borodyanka, but Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president,...
The Guardian
The Night Wolves: Putin's motorbiking militia of Luhansk
Production Year: 2016. The Night Wolves are Russia’s largest and most notorious biker gang, fiercely loyal to Vladimir Putin, and say they are motivated by Christianity and patriotism. Their base in Luhansk, east Ukraine, resembles a set...
History Hit
The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory Maclean: Putin's Russia
Does Putin feel like he is in a position of strength or is his troublemaking a profound weakness? Does Rory MacLean think we might be looking back at our failure of underestimating the Putin regime? The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory...
Weird History
The Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis
The Nord Ost Siege, as it is called on account of the show at the theater that night, was just another chapter in the long, violent relationship between Russia and Chechnya.