All posts tagged "Vladimir Putin"
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935News & BuzzTerry Boyd: Europe needs to unite, soldier up and crush Putin like America defeated the USSR
(Editor’s note: This post is in response to Vladimir Putin attacking Ukraine on 24 February 2022.) In 1989, when the Berlin Wall...
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5.2KLifestyle & Culture
Cum laude or clown? Dispatches’ post-pandemic report card for Europe’s leaders
A pandemic is a terrific test of which countries are high-functioning societies and which are dysfunctional. Which elected officials are leaders and...
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4.2KLifestyle & Culture
Putin’s People: Russian expat ‘journalist’ depicts host Netherlands as a dystopian hellhole
One of the weirder expat phenomena are expats who’ve come to free and affluent European countries such as the Netherlands from oppressive...
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Putin’s 2020 to-do list: Isolating Russia behind a digital Iron Curtain while exploiting the EU’s freedom
The ultimate manifestation of the authoritarian ultra-nationalism we see arising across Europe from Russia to Great Britain is not the nation state,...
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7.2KLifestyle & Culture
Putin’s puppets: Governments of the nostalgic, by the inept and for the extremists
As the European Union tries to figure out how to cope with – and ultimately defeat – extremists, nationalists and populists, there...
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6.5KLifestyle & Culture
Kalina Varbanova in Bulgaria: In Eastern Europe, 20-something guys see ‘St. Putin’ saving them from the West
(Editor’s note: Dispatches is dedicated to freedom of movement and the global mobility of talent. To ensure that freedom, we have to...
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Terry Boyd: We’re at war with Russia … so when will the European Union fight back? (Updated)
I’m writing this in Aldbourne, England at a pivotal time in history in what were Major Dick Winter’s World War II quarters....
