Crimea’s exiles see a hard road home through Putin’s war
Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians hail unity and denounce Russia’s occupation of peninsula
The secret shared history of Ireland and Ukraine
Europe Letter: Kyiv native and fluent Irish speaker on the struggle for independence
Greece and Turkey play slow game of tennis where neither wants to be there
Greek Letter: The net is the entire maritime region of islands and their oil and gas
Ethiopia at ‘critical crossroads’ as Abiy faces electoral test
Berhanu Nega is the leading opposition candidate in country’s first ‘free and fair’ poll
State Funeral: A remarkable portrait of the aftermath of Stalin’s death
Review: This fascinating and invaluable found-footage film is worthy of its title
Colombia’s guerrilla leader swaps battle fatigues for bedtime stories
Veteran Farc commander says there is no going back on peace deal with government
The Irish Times view on Vladimir Putin: A veneer of legitimacy
Despite his success last week Putin’s popularity is on the wane
Academic freedom is under pressure in Irish universities
Academic freedom thrives on diversity and encouraging contrasting ideas
Salvage sale of the century from a curious collector
Gerry Derry spent decades buying and selling extraordinary items from across the world
Theory of bodily ‘humors’ ruled medicine for centuries
Treatment for imbalance involved purging, starving, vomiting or bloodletting
‘We are only 1,000, but we fight like 10,000,’ says leader of Kurdistan Freedom Party
Hussein Yazdanpanah says tragedy of Kurds is ‘we have been divided among ourselves’
Ken Early: Ireland and Georgia have one problem in common - a difficult neighbour
Flying 10,000km to watch a match will some day be seen as a mad thing people used to do
Eighty years on, Russia at odds with neighbours on carve-up of Europe
Moscow defends Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 as Baltic states celebrate 1989 ‘freedom chain’
Second-generation Irish: ‘We were outsiders among the English – and the Irish too’
Ian Duhig’s parents emigrated to England in the 1950s in search of a better life. In this essay, he looks at growing up under the influence of Ireland and never feeling quite at home
Crimean Tatars stand firm against Russian occupation of homeland
Five years of Kremlin rule have brought repression to Muslim community
The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s wartime writing to Churchill and Roosevelt
Review: A remarkable collection showcasing the skill of wartime diplomacy by letter-writing
The Offload: Schmidt, Hansen and the pre-game envelope
Dan Leavy the latest player to keep injury details private; Toner thriving amid pressure
City break? Czech out Prague
Engrossing and beguiling, the Czech capital offers visitors a glimpse of its rich and glorious past
Four past summits and their lessons for Trump and Kim
During the 20th century, several summits changed the course of history
Strawberry tycoon among seven challengers to Putin
Russian officials register candidates for March 18th presidential election
Police raid Moscow cinema showing banned Stalin film
Culture ministry ban comes amid renewed popularity of dictator in Russia
Republican senator compares Donald Trump to Stalin
Jeff Flake in blistering attack on president’s attitude to media as party tensions simmer
Russia: Putin’s recipe for stagnation
Russia’s ruler of 18 years must realise that certain difficulties will only ease once he leaves office
Putin to seek re-election as Russian president in March
Election to be held on day Russia celebrates annexation of Crimea from neighbour Ukraine
Time denies Trump claims over person of the year award
US president bragged he had ‘taken a pass’ on receiving honour from magazin e
‘My grandfather remembers sitting on Stalin’s knee’
Dublin-based woman has a remarkable connection to Russia’s October Revolution
Obituary: Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poet who inspired generation of young Russians in fighting Stalinism dies at 83
Ireland’s stance on refugees shows its values, says David Miliband
Refugee debate in EU and Trump immigration stance leading to ‘humanitarian chaos’
Stephen Collins: Coming year will test traditional party politics
Instead of saying the system is broken, politicians need to show it’s working
Trump named Time magazine’s ‘2016 Person of the Year’
President-elect appoints fossil fuel defender to run the Environmental Protection Agency
Shostakovich’s Tenth: a celebration of surviving Stalin
The RTÉ NSO’s performance packed tremendous punch, if a bit out of control
Joseph Stalin: bloody tyrant and bookworm
The Soviet dictator was a brute but an intellectual. His library was a working one, not for show, and included books that had been banned and by rivals whom he had purged
Ukraine’s peace prospects fizzling out as fighting flares up
Divisions between pro-West Kiev and Russian-backed separatists erode ceasfire
Winston Churchill’s ‘Victory Watch’ to be auctioned in London
British war leader’s Swiss gold timepiece to be sold 70 years after VE Day
Islamic State in Iraq has abducted girls as sex slaves, says UN
Sunni militants press assault on Syrian border town of Kobani despite air strikes
The US right’s new reason for opposing action on climate change: it’s Marxist
Justice Scalia’s criticism of an attempt to curb pollution gives a taste of what’s to come
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