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A Dangerous Moment for Ukraine’s Fragile Ceasefire

Published January 25, 2016 in Reuters Leave a comment

What we talk about when we talk about the Minsk peace agreement.

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How Putin Has Turned the Paris Attacks to His Advantage

Published November 19, 2015 in Slate Leave a comment

Grabbing on to Hollande’s coattails, Putin has rediscovered Russia’s struggle against ISIS.

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Why It’s So Hard for Germany to Lead on the Migrant Crisis – or Anything Else

Published September 7, 2015 in Reuters Leave a comment

In Germany, even the semantics of the word “to lead” — fuehren — are loaded because of associations with Adolf Hitler.

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A European Disaster

Published September 4, 2015 in Slate Leave a comment

A refugee crisis is exposing the cracks in a continent that was supposedly whole and free.

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Putin’s War on Young People

If Russia is ever to become a country that seeks peace with its neighbors and respects the rights of its own citizens, then such a future depends on Russia’s young people.

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About Lucian

Based in Berlin and Moscow, I reported from the former Soviet empire for 25 years for NPR, Reuters, Slate, Bloomberg, and others. My first book, Putin’s Revenge: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine, is now available from Columbia University Press.

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