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Forty years since Chernobyl: Is nuclear energy more essential than ever?
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Forty years since Chernobyl: Is nuclear energy more essential than ever?

Just as world commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, countries in Asia and Africa are increasingly turning to nuclear power to compensate for the energy shortages caused by the blockades around the Strait of Hormuz.

​Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a visit to the Lomonosov Moscow State University, in Moscow, Russia, on Jan. 24, 2025.
What We're Watching

Putin looks back to the future

What future does Vladimir Putin imagine for Russia? That’s been a crucial question for those in Europe and the United States who want to know what he might want in exchange for peace with Ukraine. A leaked Russian government report offers a few possible answers.

Mikhail Gorbachev is dead. So is his legacy.
by ian bremmer

Mikhail Gorbachev is dead. So is his legacy.

A look at the last Soviet leader’s vision for his nation and how Vladimir Putin has spent decades in power dismantling it.

Russian President Vladimir Putin
Analysis

Is Putin still Soviet? Wrong question

Thirty years after the collapse of the USSR, Russia is at once completely different and stubbornly the same. What is Vladimir Putin really after in the world?

From bad to worse: US/China relations with Zanny Minton Beddoes
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

From bad to worse: US/China relations with Zanny Minton Beddoes

Ian Bremmer explores the escalating tension between the world's two biggest geopolitical and economic players—the US and China. With guest Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, Bremmer discusses the modern history of China after the fall of the Soviet Union and why another Cold War might be inevitable.