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Dr. Christine Varga-Harris is a professor within the Illinois State University History department. Among the courses she teaches are ones focused on Russian history.
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Speaking to students Friday at Normal West High School, a veteran soldier and a Peace Corps volunteer both described Ukraine as a lovely country with a gently rolling landscape similar to central Illinois.
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The Illinois General Assembly will consider a bill condemning and sanctioning Russia, three weeks into Russia's war on Ukraine.
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Maryna Teplova says her daughter and granddaughter, forced to flee the worsening conflict in Ukraine, have safely crossed the border into Poland.
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The head of the House subcommittee that oversees humanitarian aid says the U.S. sent a clear message about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with recent sanctions and continued diplomatic efforts.
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Illinois State University professor and former BBC journalist Dr. Ali Riaz says institutional racism has clouded some Western coverage of the war in Eastern Europe, in particular presenting its refugees more sympathetically than their Syrian, Middle Eastern and North African counterparts in years prior.
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Illinois State University students say they have a lot more in common with their counterparts in Russia than they realized.
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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said Thursday he supports the Biden administration’s approach so far on sanctions against Russia — although he hopes for even further sanctions personally on Vladimir Putin and his inner circle.
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine will likely impact how much we pay at the pump.
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Maryna Teplova is a doctoral student at Illinois State University who’s originally from Dnipro, a city in central Ukraine. She said her family is safe, but with Russian troops invading on three fronts, there’s nowhere for them to escape.