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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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The U.S. President Has a Serbian Precedent

Published November 9, 2004 in The Moscow Times Leave a comment

Never would I have imagined that the United States, the only country I can call home, would end up having anything in common with Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbia.

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Problems Sink In for Serbs

Published August 18, 1999 in The Christian Science Monitor Leave a comment

“Now it’s back to reality,” says Teofil Pancic. “Reality is neither peace nor war. It’s the depression of realizing you’ll go on living in a society like Milosevic’s Serbia.”

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Muslims Exit Serbia in ‘Soft’ Ethnic Cleansing

Published October 15, 1997 in The Christian Science Monitor Leave a comment

Belgrade’s repression of Sanjak Muslims began with a show of force. Serb tanks crouched on the hills overlooking Novi Pazar, while irregular soldiers roamed the narrow streets.

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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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