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Down with Lenin! - and up with...?
On a hot summer morning in June another Lenin statue fell. This time in Kyrgyzstan. Syinat Sultanalieva looks at what to keep of your past, why and why…
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BREAKING NEWS😉: Somebody leaked the NATO communique on Ukraine to me. It will say…. nothing.
The world - international security - has changed beyond recognition in the last decade. But the policies of NATO vis-à-vis Ukraine stay the same. Go…
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GRUMPY RANT: NATO Summit. A humiliated continent. And Ukraine pays the price.
We Europeans must end our pathetic dependency on a country that – pretty much every second time – chooses total nitwits to lead their country. The…
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Only a fool would believe that Putin wants peace.
Sadly for Ukraine, a man fitting that description inhabits the White House at the moment. Here are Putin’s 6 big, primitive lies – just this past week.
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Am I ok? That is the question.
This week, the Ukrainian playwright Polina Polozhentseva writes about how to react to well-meaning questions from foreigners, while your flat at home in…
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BLITZ INTERVIEW: Katerina Zirka - Ukrainian entrepreneur in Italy - "This war won’t end politely. It will end either with justice or with…
She built up her gastronomy and tourism business in Italy from scratch. Then the war came and she set aside all aside to help the war effort. "I…
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Trump is now directly helping Russia kill Ukrainians.
Three episodes from the past week show that the U.S. President has gone over to the dark side.
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Putin used Central Asia as a 'hybrid war' training ground for Ukraine (part 2): The June 2010 ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan - and Russia’s…
In the second part of our series about Russia’s ‘hybrid wars’ around its former empire, we look at the horrible, deadly ethnic clashes in southern…
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Putin used Central Asia as a 'hybrid war' training ground for Ukraine (part 1): The April 2010 crisis and violent change of power in…
Russia has been conducting ‘hybrid wars’ around its former Soviet empire long before the rest of us had even heard the term. Today, an expert from…
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Today Trump made it clear that he is with Putin against Ukraine.
One month ago I wrote that the U.S. President was now playing on team Putin. Some thought that I was too tough on Mr. Trump. Thoughts now, folks?
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On Ukraine and Putin – it’s 'TACO' on speed.
According to President Trump’s promises and threats, he should by now have punished Russia and helped Ukraine. Instead, ‘Trump Always Chickens Out…
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‘What a clever boy you are, Donald!’
It looks like the man-child in the White House finally 'got’ Putin. This is a chance that we pro-Ukrainians cannot pass up. Of course, there's a risk…
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Two Grumpy Old Men on Ukraine 🇺🇦
Two Grumpy Old Men on Ukraine 🇺🇦
Between them, Michael Andersen and Brian Bonner have covered Ukraine for 50+ years. This blog is pro-Ukrainian, telling the truth about places, people and the West's role. Neither the war nor Ukraine's other challenges started in February 2022.
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