Gas-powered kingmaker: how the UK welcomed Putin’s man in Ukraine
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The long read from The Guardian, Tuesday 8 March 2022
Oligarch Dmitry Firtash is wanted by the FBI for bribery. Nonetheless, he was received into...
Sale of the Century 2: The Road to Serfdom
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Cannes, 8 March 2022
by Mark Porter
A Quick Guide: below is the third part of Adam Curtis's The Trap. He explains the philosophy of liberty...
Poker-faced murderer keeps everyone guessing
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Cannes, 7 March 2022
OPINION
by Mark Porter
"Putin – khuylo!" they shouted from St Petersburg to Nur-Sultan on the Kazak steppes. But the inalienable right to...
Finding the “green men” who brewed up Ukraine war
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by Edward Steen, Sec-Gen. Vienna, March 6, 2022
They could have been discovered and identified in early 2015, using any home computer, as a remarkable...
Camp Putin – right and left deserting
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London, March 6, 2022
by Nick Cohen
The savagery of Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukrainian democracy has sent them into headlong retreat. Nothing better illustrates their panic...
Ukraine: the role of “reverse conspiracy theories”
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from Edward Steen. Vienna, March 8, 2022
Leigh Turner, until recently UK ambassador in Austria and Permanent Representative to the UN, was previously ambassador in...
Sale of the century: how Putin got to power
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Cannes, 6 March 2022
by Mark Porter
A Quick Guide: how the oligarchs took control of Russia after the collapse of the USSR, leading to the...
Putin’s War Is Xi’s Worst Nightmare
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Beijing is watching closely. And it doesn’t like what it sees.
By Craig Singleton, a senior China fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies...
Who is Volodymyr Zelensky? From TV star and comedian to resistance hero
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Post Paddington voiceover, the man who leads Ukraine's resistance to Russia
By James Hookway, Wall Street Journal
President Volodymyr Zelensky has become the face of Ukraine’s...
Maps as weapons
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Financial Times
John Gapper
When Apple suspended sales of iPhones and other products in Russia this week, it also made a subtler intervention. Along with Google,...