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The predicaments of EU differentiation

Dec. 10, 2018

European decision-makers point to flexible relationships with the EU as a way to maintain their countries’ independence and autonomy. New research from ARENA suggests that political differentiation might in fact lead to the opposite, which does not bode well for the UK after Brexit.

Orthodox cross procession in Northwest Russia, 1942. That the Germans opened the churches closed by the Bolshevik was well received by a religious peasantry. Source: The Russian state archive for film and photo documentation, 3/261/5.

Many Russians hoped that Hitler would free them from Stalin

Dec. 10, 2018

Ethnic Russians were much less loyal to the Soviet regime in their encounters with the German occupiers than historians have believed up to now. This is the story told by UiO researcher Johannes Due Enstad.

Ca. 30 per cent of the European population died from plague between 1347 and 1353. Illustration: Pieart dou Tielt, Wikimedia Commons.

Fur trade may have spread the plague through Europe

Dec. 10, 2018

A new ancient DNA study shows that 14th century plague outbreaks might have resulted from repeated introductions of Yersinia pestis to Europe. Commercial trade routes, including the fur trade routes, would have contributed to the rapid spread of plague during the Middle Ages.

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