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Vladimir Putin, Crimea and ‘Double Standards’
On 18 March Russia’s President Vladimir Putin delivered a major speech to Russia’s political elite aimed at explaining Russia’s policy towards Crimea and Ukraine. Plenty of commentators have analysed...
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Is West ‘Provoking’ Russia?
Fascinating question: if X responds badly to your action and cites your action as a reason for behaving badly, how far are you responsible for what X does? Three scenarios...
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Ukraine/Russia: Self-indulgent Speechwriting Pretending to be Policy
Let’s hop back to 7 July 2009. President Obama is addressing New Economic School students in Moscow, his first major speech to a Russian audience since his election. Vice President Biden will soon be...
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The diplomacy of the Ukraine autonomy deal explained
Diplomacy often looks like a precise, punctilious activity: dapper, discreet officials armed with quill pens and cucumber sandwiches crafting cunningly worded documents with multifarious shades of...
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President Putin Addresses the Nation
On 4 December Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his ‘state of the nation’ address to the Federal Assembly and an audience of over 1000 people. So, how was it as a speech?
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