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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

‘Don’t let this madman force us from our homes again’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd January, 2022) Ekaterina Pereverzeva is struggling to stop fears of war tormenting her as vast numbers of Russian forces mass across […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

‘This is our land and I’ve no other option than to fight for it’

Published by The Daily Mail (22nd January, 2022) Maksym Bilyk is a young man who thinks carefully before speaking, works with computers and has never fired a gun […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Fears and fighting spirit of nation in Kremlin crosshairs

Published by The Daily Mail (19th January, 2022) Oksana Lanskaya, a mother and successful Ukrainian food entrepreneur, admits being scared now that Russian military forces have encircled her […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Putin’s torture chamber at Number Three, Paradise Street

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th December, 2021) For almost 1,000 days, Stanislav Aseyev was held in a secret torture camp in the heart of a bustling […]

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Economics / Europe / Germany / Russia

How Angela Merkel let the West become Vladimir Putin’s pawn in the new Cold War

Published by The Mail on Sunday (September 26th, 2021) With its long wooden pier poking out into the Baltic Sea and a three-mile sweep of sandy beach fringed […]

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Europe / Russia

We are in a race to save democracy

Published by The i paper (2nd August, 2021) On Thursday, I flipped on the television before heading to bed. People in helmets were lined up at the start […]

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Europe / Russia

The doctor in a flowing white dress risking her life to stand up to Putin

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th April, 2021) There are not many doctors who visit patients in a flowing long white dress with a big red sash tied […]

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Europe / Russia

The West can play a part defeating dictatorship

Published by The i paper (1st February, 2021) For the second weekend running, protests against the festering regime of Vladimir Putin flared up across Russia. His security forces […]

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Covid19 / Europe / Russia

Coronavirus causing pain for Putin

Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th April, 2020) Badly paid doctors have quit in droves, fearing for their lives after being told to treat coronavirus patients without adequate […]

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Arts / Books / Europe / Russia

Notes from a cruel climate

Published by The Observer (23rd February, 2020) The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts (Doubleday) Sophy Roberts’s first glimpse of the Sea of Okhotsk was from beside […]

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Europe / Politics / Russia / Ukraine

Even after MH17, Corbyn and his circle were pro-Russia

Published by The Times (21st June, 2019) The scenes of death are etched in my memory. Bodies still strapped in their seats, burnt corpses, the twisted leg, the […]

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Arts / Books / Europe / Russia

Dark genius behind the destructive creed of Putinism

Published by UnHerd (26th July, 2018) Four months ago I attended a conference in New York that bought together experts on Vladimir Putin. It was a fascinating event, […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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