“If the Russians come here, they will die”
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by Askold Krushelnycky AEJ Special Correspondent, Severodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast
When war engulfed Lysychansk, a sprawling, industrial town in Ukraine’s Luhansk province, in April 2014, pro-Moscow...
Ukrainians know Putin will execute, torture and imprison opposition
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Kharkiv, February 24
by Askold Krushelnycky, AEJ Special Correspondent
Kharkiv, one of Ukraine’s most important industrial and cultural centres, is only 25 miles from the Russian...
Putin’s Long Shadow
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This film of Russian President Vladimir Putin, made by Canadian public broadcast service CBC, is a timeless profile of a man who is both...
Russia-Ukraine is an Information War, So Government Intelligence Needs More Scrutiny Than Ever
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From COUNTER PUNCH 22 February 2022
By Patrick Cockburn
The threat of war is difficult to beat when it comes to mending or enhancing a damaged reputation. President...
We have to talk about Hungary and Poland
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by Otmar Lahodynsky, Vienna, February 20, 2022
No money for thieves
For the governments of Hungary and Poland, it was a slap in the face. On...
They say Gazpacho and we say Gestapo
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Clearing up MTP's getting in a muddle about soup
Vienna, February 12, 2022
by Edward Steen
♦ Gazpacho or Gaspacho, also known as Andalusian gazpacho, is a...
Campaign to free Andrei and Irina in Belarus
Join the campaign to FREE ANDREI AKILASANDRAU and his partner IRINA ZLOBINA, led by Index on Censorship and Article 19
London/ Athens February 11, 2022
One year...
Ukraine and the shifting sands of diplomatic insults
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Paris, February 11, 2022
by Mark Porter
President Putin is notorious for arriving late for meetings with foreign heads of state, as far back as 2007...
Behind the scenes of the invented Ukraine crisis
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What does Putin really want?
Vienna, February 9, 2022
by Edward Steen, Secretary-General
Putin's confected crisis in Ukraine has brought out some of the best and best-informed...
Method or madness? The Putin doctrine
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Will the red queen vanquish the white knight?
Cannes, February 8th, 2022
Mark Porter
In chess parlance the West is "zugzwanged": whatever move it makes to combat...