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Latest Collateral Damage In U.S.-Russia Spat: An Anglo-American School Is Shut

Published September 28, 2018 in NPR Leave a comment

One-hundred-forty schoolchildren in St. Petersburg became the latest victims of the chill in U.S.-Russian relations when they were forced out of their school.

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In Russia, Scant Traces and Negative Memories of Century-Old U.S. Intervention

Published May 28, 2018 in NPR Leave a comment

A simple tombstone marks the grave of the lone American buried in the vast Naval Cemetery in Vladivostok overlooking Russia’s Pacific coast.

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Diplomatic Corps In Moscow Shrinks Just When U.S.-Russia Tensions Are At A High

Published April 12, 2018 in NPR Leave a comment

“I’m departing here very sad at having to leave my friends and my colleagues,” said US embassy spokeswoman Maria Olson.

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Putin Fends Off Fire And Fury, At Home And Abroad

Published March 30, 2018 in NPR Leave a comment

“We’re seeing false stories spreading through social media, including from abroad, to sow panic and mistrust, and to pit people against one other,” Vladimir Putin said.

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Near The Russian Border, U.S. and NATO Beef Up Their Presence

Published November 30, 2016 in NPR Leave a comment

“From here we defend Copenhagen, Paris, London and Washington,” said Hannes Hanso. “This is where the tensions are now because of our eastern neighbor, Russia.”

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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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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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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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How Angela Merkel Became the Last Best Hope for European Liberalism

Published January 19, 2016 in Slate Leave a comment

The influx of refugees isn’t a “German problem.” It is the deepest crisis in the EU’s existence — and a fight for the liberal values that define it.

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We Were Victims Too: The Rediscovery of German Civilian Suffering in World War II

Published January 30, 2009 in VDM Leave a comment

For decades, the Third Reich could be reduced to the most basic formula: Germans = perpetrators, Jews = victims. Two bestsellers published in 2002 allowed Germans to recognize World War II victims among their own.

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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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