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Women Lead The Way Against Belarus’ Patriarch, Says Svetlana Tikhanovskaya

Published September 4, 2020 in NPR Leave a comment

“Our women understood they don’t have to stay in their kitchens and can fight for their rights beside — and even in front of their men,” Tikhanovskaya says.

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Facing The Biggest Challenge Ever To His Power, Lukashenko Looks To Russia For Help

Published August 25, 2020 in NPR Leave a comment

Alexander Lukashenko is spinning a narrative of a beleaguered underdog facing hostile forces that only Vladimir Putin has the power to stop.

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Excavation Of Lithuania’s Great Synagogue Highlights A ‘Painful Page’ From History

Published October 16, 2018 in NPR Leave a comment

For decades, the principals at a boxy, two-story kindergarten in Vilnius unwittingly pored over their lesson plans a few feet above one of the city’s most sacred sites.

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A New Law In Latvia Aims To Preserve National Language By Limiting Russian In Schools

Published October 28, 2018 in NPR Leave a comment

“It’s a miracle Latvian survived as a language,” said Andis Kudors. “Latvians are sensitive because language is the main feature of our national identity.”

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NATO Is Having an Existential Crisis

Published July 12, 2016 in VICE News Leave a comment

“We’re vulnerable to bullshit thrown in the fan,” an eastern European diplomat said, requesting anonymity so as to speak undiplomatically.

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Cold War 2.0: The US Military Is Beefing Up Its Presence in the Former Soviet Bloc

Published June 25, 2016 in VICE News Leave a comment

The United States has quietly begun expanding its military footprint in a region that during the Cold War was deep inside the Soviet-controlled Warsaw Pact.

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NATO Is Holding the Biggest Exercise in Poland in a Decade, And Russia Is Not Happy

Published June 11, 2016 in VICE News Leave a comment

“I expected to go to Iraq or Afghanistan,” said Sergeant Malcolm McEwen, manning a Humvee with mounted Stinger missiles on the banks of the Vistula River.

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Baltics Look Longingly at NATO

Published December 20, 2000 in The Christian Science Monitor Leave a comment

A local politician once compared Lithuania’s move to join the alliance to the extravagant wishes of a poor man to wear a fur coat.

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Kaliningrad: Model of Cooperation with EU?

Published January 10, 2001 in The Christian Science Monitor Leave a comment

“Kaliningrad could be the best location in Russia — paradise, ” says Viktor Hoffmann. “But we must be open to Europe like Poland or Lithuania.”

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Want to Move Your Tank Battalion to Take on a Threat? NATO’s Got a Form for That.

Published November 26, 2015 in Reuters Leave a comment

“What we want is like a military Schengen zone,” Lieutenant General Hodges said. “Right now refugees can move across Europe faster than military convoys.”

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Women Lead The Way Against Belarus’ Patriarch, Says Svetlana Tikhanovskaya

“Our women understood they don’t have to stay in their kitchens and can go and fight for their rights beside  — and even in front of their men,” said Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

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About Lucian

Based in Berlin and Moscow, I’ve reported from the former Soviet empire since 1996. I started working as National Public Radio’s Moscow correspondent in December 2016. Before that I contributed to Reuters, Slate, Bloomberg and The Moscow Times, among others.

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