Who led Putin down this disastrous road?
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es Vienna 19/08/22
Spies for a murderous dictatorship tread a perilous path, as this extraordinary exclusive article Washington Post shows. Or maybe it shows Putin...
Deadlock in Putin’s war. Meanwhile bombings continue, with fears of nuclear explosions at Zaporizhzhia
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es Vienna, August 19, 2022
Numerous diplomatic moves yesterday to try to avoid what the visiting UN Secretary-General Gutierrez, President Erdogan of Turkey, and Ukrainian...
Day 175 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At-a-glance summary
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Russian military leaders are likely to be “increasingly concerned” about security in Crimea after reported explosions, a British intelligence update said. The Ministry of...
Twitter kills. Or maybe it can just get you locked up for life. And who really owns it?
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es Vienna, August 17,2022 (UPDATED 18/08/22 & 21/08/22)
The story of Salma al-Shehab|, a clever young woman PhD student with two small children, is beyond...
Dying to kill: Russian neo-Nazis fighting for “denazification” of Ukraine
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Mark Porter, Cannes, 18/08/22
Throughout the six months of conflict, Vladimir Putin has insisted that Ukraine is run by neo-Nazis. For his part, Ukraine’s (Jewish)...
Redrawing the Iron Curtain
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Tim Marshall is the author of The Power of Geography and Prisoners of Geography, published by Elliott & Thompson.
This article appeared in last Saturday's...
One man’s struggle to save Russia’s honour
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es Vienna, August 14, 2022
One of the most remarkable and fearless opponents of Vladimir Putin is his namesake Vladimir Kara-Murza, 40, a writer and...
Hungary’s Orban – new hero of the US right
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es Vienna, August 13, 2022
He has been called "the enemy within", and is a favourite of Donald Trump. Hence Viktor Orbán's glorious time being...
Writer Salman Rushdie stabbed – risks losing an eye
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es Vienna, August 13, 2022 (UPDATED 08/19/21 - would-be assassin in court)
Eyewitness describes horrific knife attack on Rushdie, 75, in Chautauqua, upstate New York,...
How our man in Kabul (and his family) made it to Bavaria
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by Mark Porter in Cannes ♦ August 13, 2022 (UPDATES - see links)
Almost a year to the day since the Allies effectively handed Afghanistan...