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Hospital within earshot of front line – photo essay

es Vienna, May 11, 2020 Reuters photo essay today, 11/05/22. The hospital in the small Ukrainian town of Bakhmut was never intended to receive queues of...

Taiwan’s call for proper WHO recognition at last

By Edward Steen, Secretary-General. Vienna, May 10, 2022 Taiwan, once again in China's firing line, has been badly rattled by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ...

The biter bit – official media and TV hacked by two anti-war Russian journalists

(es) May 10, 22, Vienna Two anti-war hackers working for one of the main Russian news-sites, Lenta.ru, fled the country and from abroad posted online...

Ukraine – into the third month

(es) Vienna, May 10, 2022 Russian forces conducting ‘storming operations’ on Azovstal steel plant  The shambles of Victory Day in Moscow yesterday has yet to provide...

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...

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