“Russia will prevail,” cried the autarch before a ‘TV glitch’ cut him off
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In front of a packed soccer stadium of loyalists, many brandishing newly minted national flags, Russian President Vladimir Putin justified the invasion of Ukraine...
Ukraine and Taiwan: in the eye of the despot
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Friday 18 March 2022 Bowdoin campus, Brunswick, Maine
by Tom Porter
What does the recent invasion of Ukraine mean for diplomatic relations between Russia and its...
Finland’s Winter War – the history lesson Putin ignored
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Putin appears to have learned nothing from the failures of Stalin
London, 18 March 2022
by Roger Wilsher
Russian leader Vladimir Putin is making the classic mistake...
Arnie speaks for the world while Marina acts for it
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(ES) Vienna, March 18, 2022
The tv journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, a mother of two children who interrupted the live evening news on Russia's Channel 1...
Klitschko’s voice resounds across the moral void of Russia
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZUPYZbtoo0
Fog of war: what the heck is going on?
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Here an American military vet applies his seasoned eye to the pattern of the war so far. Great stuff if you're interested in tanks,...
US to send armed drones to Ukraine
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US moves closer to direct conflict with Russia
by Mark Porter. Cannes, March 16, 2022
Armed drones with the capability of knocking out almost all Russian...
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...
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,...