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DW suggests Putin stirring up trouble in Balkans

es Vienna, June 9, 2022 Slavic tradition and overt Russian backing (including by the Orthodox Church) have encouraged Serbia to stir up dissent and to...

What kind of Victory Day?

(es) Vienna, May 9, 2022  UPDATED MIDNIGHT “They made a desert,” the Roman historian Tacitus wrote of Rome’s warfare tactics, attributing the words to the...

Digital Authoritarianism at War: Controlling Russia’s Information Space

by Laura Howells and Laura A. Henry What are the implications of Russia’s crackdown on internet freedom within its borders? How does Moscow’s digital authoritarianism...

Britain’s oligarch problem

FT documentaries available on YouTube often give more coherent accounts of some business scandal or significant economic development than, for example, the celebrity obsessed...

Britain’s Napoleonic Posturing will be Exposed by Battlefield Reality

by Patrick Cockburn “Take a charitable view,” was the advice of Sir Wilmot Lewis, the veteran correspondent of The Times in Washington in the last...

Moldova Diary: the Russians are coming

by Paula Erizanu (from the Financial Times Weekend section) ‘No one in Chisinau believed a real war might re-emerge here. That has changed’ I am...

“False flag” fears prompted by explosions in Moldova as Russia seeks to spread its shadow

by Mark Porter, Edinburgh April 27 2022 Warning comes as Moldovan president blames ‘pro-war forces’ for explosions in separatist-controlled region Two explosions destroyed two radio...

Putin abandons Ukraine deal and shifts to land-grab strategy

Volte-face from Russian president who was considering settlement with Kyiv last month Vladimir Putin is no longer considering deploying diplomacy to end his war with...

Media summit focusses on fake news and Ukraine

Lech, Austria, 24/04/22 by Otmar Lahodynsky, Honorary AEJ President A seminar of media experts (in German/ DE) on the Arlberg pass was dedicated to the new threats to...

The Inconvenience of truth: Howard Jacobson

"It is a terrible thing to be in possession of a truth that people don't want to hear," writes Howard Jacobson in a BBC...

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