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Transport

Side effects

Once a utilitarian Soviet vehicle, Ural Motorcycles are back in vogue. Junichi Toyofuku is taken for a spin.

  • Issue #147
  • 4 min read
Man with helmet and goggles sitting in motorcycle sidecar recording with microphone
Music

Different tune

The old Soviet Dom Radio building in St Petersburg is creating daring music and art – and refusing to follow the mood music at play in much of Russia today.

  • Issue #146
  • 8 min read
Conductor Teodor Currentzis directing MusicAeterna orchestra during rehearsal in ornate classical concert hall
Business

Branch network

It makes elegant, versatile and sustainable buildings but there’s now a global shortage of timber – and the issue is splintering global relations.

  • Issue #145
  • 4 min read
Branch network
Diplomacy

Fight your corner

Trump called the organisation ‘obsolete’ but Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance is stronger than ever and ready to deal with cyber threats, bullying nations and the shifting global balance of power.

  • Issue #143
  • 7 min read
Fight your corner
Culture

The truth hunters

Despite exile and threats from Myanmar's military regime, this US-educated journalist returns to report on his homeland's darkest chapters, driven by duty over career ambition.

  • Issue #142
  • 16 min read
The truth hunters
Affairs

Defence

The US Navy considers renaming some of its ships; Chile purchases some new missiles for its second-hand frigate; Russia’s fighter jet finds its market.

  • Issue #142
  • 4 min read
Defence
Affairs

Diplomacy

Canada’s ambassador to Belarus talks keeping the peace, Bulgaria and Russia fight it out and a new embassy location is found in Jerusalem.

  • Issue #141
  • 4 min read
Diplomacy
Defence

Defence

Russia takes an interest in CAR, Denmark’s mission to Greenland and Romania buys missiles.

  • Issue #139
  • 3 min read
Large crowd on motorcycles and military vehicles parading down a wide street.
Affairs

How to be a modern spy

As digital footprints have become easier to follow, the espionage game has changed. We track where it’s heading.

  • The Forecast #11
  • 10 min read
How to be a modern spy
Diplomacy

Defence & Diplomacy

Estonia’s defence minister on what he expects from the US, a Belgian-Dutch embassy design conference and China sells missile defence to Serbia.

  • Issue #137
  • 4 min read
Modern architectural design of the Belgian-Dutch joint embassy building in Kinshasa

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