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Leonid Bershidsky
Leonid Bershidsky
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Putin Has Weathered Covid by Shifting Blame
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s methods of alleviating the economic damage from the Covid-19 pandMedvedev Out: Putin Overhauls Russia's Governance System
When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a radical overhaul of Russia’s governance system thiEurope’s Center-Left Learns to Live After Death
After Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party suffered a painful defeat in the recent UK election, it’s easy toPutin’s Grand Gas Project
In the space of just a few momentous weeks, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most ambitiousFacebook Just Can’t Seem to Beat the Russians
Social-media companies insist they’re making progress in fighting the manipulation of their platformGermany’s Political Crisis Will Unfold in Slow Motion
A German political crisis isn’t a raging, unstoppable, unpredictable forest fire: It starts with seeWill the New EU Commission Be French or German?
The new European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen received overwhelming support fromGoogle’s Micro-Targeting Ban Won’t Improve Political Ads
Google says it will limit the targeting of political ads to make it harder to sneak misinformation tFor Russia, Even the Language Can Be a Weapon
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, “Russophobes,” “aggressive nationalists” and certainHuman Smuggling Demands a Human Solution
More is required from the British and other European governments: They ought to be more humane.A Refugee Invasion of Europe? Erdogan Is Bluffing
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to “open the gates” to Europe for Syrian refugHow Thomas Cook’s ‘Excursions’ Lost Their Way
The bankruptcy of Thomas Cook Group Plc, the company whose founder is credited with inventing the moHey, EU, Don’t Make Climate Promises You Can’t Keep
Ursula von der Leyen, the new European Commission president, wants to make Europe the first carbon-nEuropeans Want the EU to Act Like a Superpower
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president-elect, has promised to run a “geopolitical CItalian Fiasco Proves One Thing About the Far Right
Political parties of the far-right make unreliable, even disastrous, coalition partners.Pages
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A picture taken with a drone shows the roads almost empty during the nationwide lockdown in Dora area north Beirut, Lebanon, 23 January 2021. EPA/WAEL HAMZEH
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A picture taken on January 19, 2021 shows a moving mechanical artwork in the workshop of Swiss master Francois Junod, in Sainte-Croix. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
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23 January 2021, Russia, Saint Petersburg: A protester wearing a face mask holds a placard during a demonstration against the detention of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Photo: Sergei Mikhailichenko/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire/dpa
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Young people wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus ride bicycles at a park in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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