“Please sign the petition for the repair of the Lukianivskyi market,” reads the signs held by several women. Behind them lie the burnt iron and roofs of what until the early hours of last Sunday was one of the oldest markets in Kyiv, said to date back 120 years. “I have been living in fear of missiles, of losing everything, for more than four years. And now we have nothing left,” says Marina, who stands out among the other women because of her yellow wool jacket. For 25 years she has had, or had, a small fruit and vegetable shop.

Taking advantage of a Supreme Court ruling, southern U.S. states have rushed to eliminate majority-Black electoral districts.

Although it later turned out to be a mistake by the character, who confused one island with another, the Icelanders jumped when, in his speech in Davos last January, Donald Trump mentioned Iceland as a target of his expansionist appetites. The President of the United States meant Greenland, so the alarm passed quickly, but anyway his harassment of the neighboring Arctic island has struck a chord in Icelandic society and politics.