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Albright fled the Nazis, climbed to the summit of diplomacy

Madeleine Albright fled the Nazis as a child and climbed to the summit of diplomacy and foreign policy in the United States

The Independent UK · Mar 23, 2022

Madeleine Albright wrote that Putin was making ‘historic error’ a month before she died

First female secretary of state writes that ‘Putin must know that a second Cold War would not necessarily go well for Russia’

The Independent UK · Mar 23, 2022

The legacy of the Euromaidan Revolution lives on in the Ukrainian-Russian war

“Hello Dear Mark: the number of victims in Kyiv is growing every day (people are dying in the hospitals) and is already 100 … My family is OK. I just need to explain to my nearly 6 year old girl why people are flying to the sky forever and what…

The Conversation · Mar 23, 2022

Putin's oligarchs plotting to topple him

The Russian oligarchs who have profited from Putin's presidency

Salon · Mar 21, 2022

Kidnapping, theft and corruption: Damning revelations of Roman Abramovich probe in full

The details of Roman Abramovich's purchase of Russian state-owned companies at bargain sums have emerged as part of a BBC Panorama investigation into the Chelsea owner

Daily Mirror · Mar 14, 2022

Roman Abramovich private jet tracked as Chelsea boss accused of 'shady deals'

Former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich was pictured sitting in a VIP lounge at Ben Gurion international airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, as Israel warned it could not provide a safe haven to sanctioned Russians

Daily Mirror · Mar 14, 2022

Commentary: Keep foreign reporters in Russia despite the Kremlin’s crackdown

Back in 1992, when I first started working as a journalist in Moscow, government officials in newly post-Soviet Russia were delighted to speak with foreign reporters. Boris Yeltsin was an imperfect Russian president, but he allowed freedom of the press to flourish. That made the 1990s a vibrant time to…

Los Angeles Times · Mar 12, 2022

Putin is on a quest for historical significance by invading Ukraine and gambling on his own and Russia's glory

When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, most Russian officials in St. Petersburg’s mayor’s office were quick to replace the portraits of the Communist revolutionary heroes Vladimir Lenin and Sergei Kirov with the portrait of Boris Yeltsin, the new Russian president.

The Conversation · Mar 1, 2022

Vladimir Putin sits atop a crumbling pyramid of power

Putin’s end goal isn’t Ukraine but western civilization – the hatred for which he lapped up in the black milk he drank from the KGB’s teat

The Guardian - US · Feb 27, 2022

Commentary: Not all Russians buy Putin’s warmongering

MOSCOW — In May 1993, Estonia’s first post-Soviet leader Lennart Meri — a wise man with bitter experience of life in the Soviet Union — told the visiting U.S. deputy secretary of state that Estonia urgently needed to join NATO. It was, he said, the only guarantee that Russia wouldn’t…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 7, 2022