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Potemkin Village

Published August 11, 2016 in Berlin Policy Journal Leave a comment

As a friend and I sat on one of Moscow’s ubiquitous summer verandas one evening, quaint trams trundled by. For a moment, it almost felt like Prague.

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“Bromance”

Published September 5, 2016 in Berlin Policy Journal Leave a comment

The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and Newsweek have all used “bromance” to describe the unlikeliest twist in the troubled US-Russian relationship.

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In Putin’s Russia, No Difference Between Doping and Duping

Published July 14, 2016 in Reuters Leave a comment

Russia’s doping scandal is only the symptom of a much larger problem.

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What Brexit Looks Like to the Rest of Europe

Published June 24, 2016 in Slate Leave a comment

A colleague from Poland advised his British-born wife to get a Polish passport. It was high time to make some coffee.

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How NATO Really Provoked Putin

Published June 6, 2016 in Reuters Leave a comment

From the Kremlin’s point of view, it’s infinitely worse to be ignored than to be considered a worthy rival.

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“Hotspots”

Published May 1, 2016 in Berlin Policy Journal Leave a comment

The word choice was an unhappy mélange of the common meanings of hot spot, evoking a place that was dangerous, crowded, and high-tech all at the same time.

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For Europe, the Party’s Over. It’s Not Clear What Comes Next.

Published May 24, 2016 in Reuters Leave a comment

The promise of Europe is over. Paradoxically, German hubris carries a good deal of the blame.

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Being Cool Has Ruined Berlin

Published April 15, 2016 in Roads & Kingdoms Leave a comment

The Berlin I once knew was not the kind of place you raved about. There was no fine dining but plenty of heavy drinking. The beautiful people ran London and Munich and Milan. In Berlin, the punks were in charge.

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A Dirty – Not Particularly Funny – Poem Just Turned Into an ‘International Crisis’

Published April 13, 2016 in Reuters Leave a comment

Just when Angela Merkel thought she had checked “Turkey” off her to-do list, a filth-laden poem read by a late-night comic is presenting her with a new dilemma.

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Vladimir Putin Feels Your Pain

Published April 14, 2016 in Slate Leave a comment

The Kremlin’s call-in program is like a surreal game show where an entire country asks one contestant questions — and his answers are 
always right.

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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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