Day 86 of the Ukraine war “absolute evil, absolute stupidity.” Updates incl on propaganda war
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(es) Vienna, May 21, 2022
Ukrainian President Zelensky describes conditions in the east of the country as "hell". Intensifying Russian bombardment had left the Donbas...
Upmarket media bucking downward trend on news web traffic as NYT reports record figures
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es Vienna, June 20, 2022
UK Press Gazette, which has become one of the most informative publications in Europe, printed and especially digital since going...
What if Yulia Tymoshenko is right? Does Putin intend to exterminate Ukraine?
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es. Vienna, May 20, 2021
Interview with the Wiener Zeitung, Vienna, today
Yulia Tymoshenko is the icon of Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004, when a mass...
Azovstal resistance ends – fate of soldiers unclear
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es Vienna, May 18, 2022
A total of 694 Ukrainian fighters holed up in the giant Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol have surrendered in the last...
Russia learns a hard lesson about the folly of war
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Great powers usually come off worse when they invade smaller countries
by Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator of the Financial Times
Vladimir Putin was not...
Johnson’s Ukraine support hides less glorious UK past
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London, May 6, 2022
Britain's stance on Ukraine wins plaudits, but questions remain about the UK’s wider record on Russia and whether its tone will...
Nato latest: Turkey expected to back off from vetoing Finland and Sweden
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BERLIN/STOCKHOLM, May 15 (Reuters) - NATO and the United States said on Sunday they were confident Turkey would not hold up membership of Finland...
Turkey to hold urgent talks with Finland and Sweden over Nato membership
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REUTERS: Foreign ministers from Finland, Sweden and Turkey will hold clear the air talks in Berlin on Saturday to resolve disagreements over Finnish and...
Russia’s War against Ukraine: Day 81
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Intense fighting raged in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region where Russia has been concentrating its forces without making significant progress, while “very difficult negotiations” were...
Channel 4 head Alex Mahon: ‘It’s not for me to oppose privatisation’
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Chief executive says she will remain ‘independent’ during expected legislative battle over state-owned UK broadcaster
Alex Barker in London for the Financial Times.
MAY 11 2022
The...