The recruiters talked about high-paying construction jobs in Russia. Instead, the men were sent to dig trenches and collect the dead in Russian-occupied Ukraine. With carrots, sticks, and deceit, Russia forces poor guest workers from Central Asia to the front.
ConflictsAzerbaijan and Armenia are in principle ready to sign a peace agreement.
WorldThe janitor who found the former security adviser Henrik Landerholm's secret papers is linked via a bank transfer to a Chechen extremist. Terror researcher Magnus Ranstorp calls it remarkable that the conference center did not control its janitors better.
SwedenThe International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) has jurisdiction to examine the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia as two separate legal cases.
WorldPeace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is "not only possible, but also within reach". This was the message from Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in a speech at the UN General Assembly in New York.
World politicsGeorgia's men's national football team will receive approximately 112 million kronor from oligarch Bidzina Ivanisjvili after the historic advancement to the round of 16 in the European Championship in Germany. If they pull off an upset against Spain on Sunday, the team is promised even more money.
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