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Putin Should Pay One More Visit to Kiev

Published January 11, 2005 in The Moscow Times Leave a comment

Everyone I’ve talked to resents Putin’s two visits to campaign for Yanukovych but goes to great lengths to explain how warm their feelings for Russia are.

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Putins paranoider Krieg gegen Geschichte

Published March 24, 2022 in Neue Zürcher Zeitung Leave a comment

Da sein Geschichtsverständnis höchst selektiv und politisch verzerrt ist, ist Putins Versuch, die Welt neu zu ordnen, zum Scheitern verurteilt.

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Putin’s War on History

Published March 21, 2022 in The Russia File Leave a comment

Vladimir Putin’s obsession with the past is consuming thousands of lives, wreaking destruction on Ukraine and threatening Russia’s own future.

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Putin’s Colossal Intelligence Failure

Published March 11, 2022 in The Russia File Leave a comment

The main difference between Ukraine and Russia is that Ukrainians have become citizens of their own country, while Russians remain subjects of their ruler.

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The Human Cost of Putin’s War

Published February 25, 2022 in The Russia File Leave a comment

For the first time in my 25-year career as a journalist, I broke down in tears at the news.

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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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About Lucian

Based in Berlin and Moscow, I’ve reported from the former Soviet empire since 1996 for NPR, Reuters, Slate, Bloomberg and The Moscow Times, among others. I currently write for Foreign Policy and am a Global Fellow with the Wilson Center in Washington.

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