Putin on the ropes, desperate appeal to Russian people
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https://twitter.com/just_whatever/status/1504144895501557762?s=24
Vladimir Putin today sent a chilling warning to the West and oligarchs telling 'scum' traitors that Russians will 'spit them out like a midge that...
Lawyers intimidating journalists to protect oligarchs say MPS
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by John Hyde of the Law Society Gazette
Oligarchs trying to protect reputations instruct London lawyers because they are intimidatingly expensive, MPs told
Journalists who have...
RIP Erhard Busek – man dubbed “too decent for politics”
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(es) Edward Steen, Secretary-General. Vienna, March 15, 2022
The death of former Austrian Vice-Chancellor and OeVP leader Erhard Busek on the eve of his 81st...
Russia’s folly will drive change in the EU
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It's time for a more nuanced approach by France and Germany
by Alain Catzeflis,
Whipsnade, England,16 March 2022
The idea of Europe, like the idea of peace,...
Freedom from Iran for journalist who wasn’t a journalist
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COMMENT Anatomy of very British scandal that cost woman six years of her life
by Edward Steen. Vienna, March 16, 2022 Updated with BBC documentary...
Putin’s hubris will lead to nemesis, but when?
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London, 16 March 2022
by Anthony Robinson
Seldom has the warning that “Russia is never as strong as it seems, or as weak” been so apposite...
China’s self-interest is key to war outcome
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by Hu Wei in Beijing
Vice-chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor’s Office of the State Council, Hu Wei is chairman of...
The Molotov militia waiting for the Russians
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Mykolaiv, 14 March 2022
by Askold Krushelnycky,
The Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv is being reinforced for a renewed onslaught by Russian forces which have so far...
Putin’s War: Day 19
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♦ A senior employee of Russia’s state Channel One television has interrupted the channel’s main news programme with an extraordinary protest against Vladimir Putin’s...
Award-winning US journalist killed in Kyiv
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(es) Vienna, March 14, 2022 updated 16/03/22 - death of Irish photographer and colleague
Brent Renaud, 50, an award-winning American film-maker and journalist, was killed...