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Alexei Bayer: Pining away for the Soviet past

Ryan Olsen, Iulia-Sabina Joja: Costs of Russia’s hostilities in the Black Sea

Yasmeen Serhan: The Taliban is just as bad as it always was

Ezgi Yazici: Turkey in review

Washington Post: In Belarus, a social media post can be a ticket to prison

Ibrahim Hamidi: Are Putin, Erdogan doing territorial swaps in Syria again?

Alexander Etkind: Navalny’s chance will come

Judy Dempsey: Poland tests the EU’s future

Tanya Lokshina: Thugs attack Russian human rights group

From the archives: Happy 26th Birthday, Kyiv Post!

The first Kyiv Post print edition! The newspaper made its debut on Oct. 18, 1995, with 16 pages. The inaugural edition covers Ukraine’s stifled privatization drive, especially in the agricultural sector. A Shakhtar soccer match in Donetsk stopped play after a bomb killed Alexander Bragin, or “Alik the Greek,” a crime boss and club president on Oct. 15. The blast also killed his brother and four bodyguards. Radio entrepreneur Walid Harfouch.

Read the Oct. 18, 1995 edition here