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How Russia trains its deep undercover spies
The Explainer Moscow's elite 'illegal' sleeper agents pose as foreigners and live under false identities known as 'legends', often for decades
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Secret plan for UK to protect Irish skies
Under The Radar Relations between Dublin and London have historically been strained but covert co-operation has endured for decades
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Is the next cold war a drone-swarm race between US and China?
Today's Big Question Both global superpowers are building up their capacity for surging robotic warfare. What happens next is anyone's guess.
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The next superpowers: who will hold sway in 2050?
feature China overtakes the US, India emerges, great power ‘blocs’ rule, or tech giants take over – some of the geopolitical possibilities on the horizon
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How Latin America became the battleground in Cold War 2.0
feature Iran, China and Russia are strengthening ties in anti-US Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua
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Evan Gershkovich: what does Russia want from jailing US citizens?
Under the Radar Russian police arrested Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges in first such case since Cold War
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Ukraine and a post-Western world: are we entering a new era in global politics?
Today's Big Question The war in Ukraine has revealed shifting power dynamics across the world
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Why is the US waging a tech war on China?
Today's Big Question Battle for technological supremacy is at the forefront of a new economic Cold War
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How the build-up of troops in Europe compares to the Cold War
feature Security expert analyses the US pledge to increase military presence in eastern Europe
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What the ‘One China’ principle means for future of Taiwan
feature The policy has cast the government in Taipei out into the diplomatic wilderness
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How the Queen would announce nuclear war
Speed Read ‘Not for a single moment did I imagine that this solemn and awful duty would one day fall to me,’ reads Cold War draft speech
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German reunification: how the world reacted
In Depth This week marks the 28th anniversary of the formal dissolution of the German Democratic Republic
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Russia shows its teeth with Victory Day parade
Speed Read Why this year’s Red Square event was worth watching
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Stanislav Petrov ‘the man who saved the world’ dies in Russia aged 77
Speed Read Former Soviet colonel averted certain cold war nuclear disaster thanks to ‘gut instinct’ in 1983
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