DW suggests Putin stirring up trouble in Balkans
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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?
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(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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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...