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A lottery to save democracy | Fokus – Ukraine
Dec02

A lottery to save democracy | Fokus – Ukraine

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A lottery to save democracy | Fokus – Ukraine
Dec02

A lottery to save democracy | Fokus – Ukraine

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How I trolled Putin and lived to tell the tale
Nov30

How I trolled Putin and lived to tell the tale

NEW YORK — An avalanche of sleekly produced, glitzy talk-shows took over prime time television in Russia in the aftermath of Vladimir Putin’s military adventure in Ukraine in 2014. He needed to sell the war to his electorate, and the Kremlin kicked its vast apparatus of state-controlled print and broadcast media into overdrive. The shows...

How I trolled Putin and lived to tell the tale
Nov30

How I trolled Putin and lived to tell the tale

NEW YORK — An avalanche of sleekly produced, glitzy talk-shows took over prime time television in Russia in the aftermath of Vladimir Putin’s military adventure in Ukraine in 2014. He needed to sell the war to his electorate, and the Kremlin kicked its vast apparatus of state-controlled print and broadcast media into overdrive. The shows...

Trump’s Russian schizophrenia
Nov30

Trump’s Russian schizophrenia

Subscribe to The Global POLITICO on Apple Podcasts here. | Subscribe via Stitcher here. The United States should send arms to Ukraine to help in its “self-defense” against Russian aggression. It should hold Russia accountable for its illegal “occupation” of territory there, and push for international peacekeepers. Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Ukrainians will fix Ukraine, not Brussels
Nov28

Ukrainians will fix Ukraine, not Brussels

Your recent article “How the EU broke Ukraine (with help from Russia)” (November 24) gets three things wrong about my country. First, its headline parrots the Russian propaganda trope that blames the European Union for the conflict in Ukraine by pushing the country to sign an association agreement. In fact, successive Ukrainian governments pushed...

Panel urges NATO to step up dialogue with China
Nov28

Panel urges NATO to step up dialogue with China

NATO must adapt for futuristic warfare and seek partnerships with emerging powers, especially China, if the alliance hopes to respond to renewed threats from Russia and a fast-changing security landscape, according to a panel of military and diplomatic experts. In a detailed report published Monday, the experts, who were convened by...

Russia casts shadow over EU’s eastern summit

There wasn’t one mention of Russia in the official declaration approved on Friday by EU leaders and the six former Soviet republics that form the so-called Eastern Partnership. But the shadow cast by the Kremlin over the summit was impossible to ignore, as was the EU’s uncertainty over what to do about it. German Chancellor Angela...

Russia casts shadow over EU’s eastern summit
Nov25

Russia casts shadow over EU’s eastern summit

There wasn’t one mention of Russia in the official declaration approved on Friday by EU leaders and the six former Soviet republics that form the so-called Eastern Partnership. But the shadow cast by the Kremlin over the summit was impossible to ignore, as was the EU’s uncertainty over what to do about it. German Chancellor Angela...

How the EU broke Ukraine (with help from Russia)
Nov24

How the EU broke Ukraine (with help from Russia)

Four years after the EU’s push for closer ties with Ukraine provoked Russia and helped start a revolution, the country is ravaged by war and nearly broke. So as EU leaders gather in Brussels Friday to celebrate the Eastern Partnership, their foreign policy initiative to strengthen relations with countries in the former Soviet bloc, the...