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Artists who made history
Memories of Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe; plus, banned Russian art
The Marcos regime in the Philippines
The rule of Ferdinand Marcos Senior; Shanghai during World War Two; McDonald's in Russia
The war in Transnistria
Moldova battles Russian-backed separatists; Egypt bread riots; Eyjafjallajökull erupts
Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
Taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s; plus the Roe v Wade abortion ruling
Algeria's War of Independence
60 years after Algerian independence, accounts of a traumatic “birth of a nation”
Women's rights in Iraq
What is life like for women in Iraq following the US invasion in 2003?
War crimes in the former Yugoslavia
How the conflicts in the Balkans resonate today amid the fighting in Ukraine
The Falkands War
Two contrasting accounts of the conflict from an islander and an Argentine conscript.
Protesting against Putin
A decade ago demonstrators tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power
Ukrainian history special
The Babi Yar massacre, Ukraine's great famine and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
