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As Ukraine Rebuilds Its Identity, Folk Songs Are the New Cool

Faced with Russia’s efforts to erase Ukrainian culture, people have embraced traditional music as a way to reconnect with their past and affirm their identity.

By Constant Meheut Daria Mitiuk and Brendan Hoffman

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The War Has Reined In Ukraine’s Oligarchs, at Least for Now

Oligarchs have lost billions from the shelling of their factories, and the government has used its wartime powers to break their political influence.

By Constant Meheut

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Ukraine’s War of Drones Runs Into an Obstacle: China

As the war with Russia stretches on, so too does a contest to make more and deadlier flying machines. That means a fight over global electronics supply chains that run through China.

By Paul Mozur and Valerie Hopkins

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The Met Commissions an Opera About Abducted Ukrainian Children

The work, by the Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets and the American playwright George Brant, is inspired by the accounts of mothers whose children were taken during the war.

By Javier C. Hernandez

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