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The intensification of the Russo-Ukrainian War over three months ago saw the Russian Federation鈥檚 full-scale invasion of its neighbouring country. Russia is single-handedly responsible for the recrudescence of war in Europe for the first time in over two decades. The last few months have seen the entire world鈥檚 eyes fixed on Ukraine, as well as our own at Slovo. Of the four research articles which we are delighted to publish as part of the Spring 2022 issue of Slovo, Damir Sedrayev鈥檚 (Universidad Carlos III and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) 鈥淭he Evolution of Military and Non-Military Means in Russian Strategic Thinking (1991-2022),鈥� offers an insightful contribution as to the causes of Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine. We are equally delighted to publish Ioannis Lainas鈥� (果冻影院) 鈥淭error or Errors?: From the Socialist Narrative to the Post-Cold War Era鈥� and Lara Olszowska鈥檚 (果冻影院) 鈥淔rom Hollywood Mobster to Russian Gangster: Representations of Mafia in Coppola鈥檚 Godfather Trilogy and Balabanov鈥檚 Brother Films.鈥� Two of our film reviews return to the issue鈥檚 key subject matter of the Russo-Ukrainian war: Andrii Smytsniuk鈥檚 (University of Cambridge) treatment of Kornii Hrytsiuk鈥檚 documentary, Train: Kyiv 鈥� War (2020) and Anna Kotichenko鈥檚 (University of Warsaw) treatment of Zaza Urushadze鈥檚 A Friendship That Survived the Wrath of War (2019). Our three book reviews, Mathias Fuelling鈥檚 (Temple University) treatment of Jonathan Dimbleby鈥檚 Operation Barbarossa: The History of a Cataclysm (2021), Elizabeth Gabriele鈥檚 (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) evaluation of the panoramic collection Memories of Terror: Essays on Recent Histories (2021) and Alejandro Perna鈥檚 (Higher School of Economics) treatment of Jorge Saborido鈥檚 1917: La Revoluci贸n Rusa Cien A帽os Despu茅s (2017), altogether cover a wide array of subject matter.

We welcome you to join us at our virtual launch event for the Spring 2022 issue, at which several of the issue鈥檚 contributing authors will be present to discuss their research.