Yaacov's lecture will focus on the Soviet intelligence community’s efforts to discover the extent and patterns of the mass extermination of Jews from 1941. Given what's going on in Ukraine, Yaacov's research on Soviet intelligence during the 1940s, 50s, &c. sheds some interesting (and chilling) light on the present.

On 13th April 2022 the UK Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Republic of Rwanda on what is described as an ‘asylum partnership arrangement’. The agreement seeks to enable the ‘transfer’, or forced removal, of asylum-seekers from the UK to Rwanda to have their claims determined there, in accordance with Rwandan asylum and immigration law. The legal foundation for the UK’s proposed externalization of refugee determination and protection is the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.