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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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Politics

Boris on the burka was straight out of Bannon’s playbook

Published by The i paper (13th August, 2018) Put aside, even if just for a moment, the future of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. He is a sad […]

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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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Europe / Russia / Technology

Putin’s propaganda deserves mockery, not a ban

Published by The Times (20th April, 2018) Have no doubt: RT, the television channel formerly known as Russia Today, is a malign force. It exists to pump out […]

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Europe / Politics / Russia

No place for defeatism in the struggle for democracy

Published by The i paper (19th March, 2016) As Russia goes through another sham election to crown its tsar for six more miserable years, it is easy to […]

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Europe / Russia

Putin is not strong – it’s we who’ve grown weak

Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th March, 2018) In December 1989, a young KGB officer was stationed in Dresden watching the collapse of communism when a crowd […]

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Europe / Russia

Survivor of two poison attacks: hit Abramovich to hurt Putin

Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th March, 2018) A Russian dissident who has survived two attempts to poison him in the past three years has called on […]

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Europe / Politics / Russia

Corbyn’s failure of leadership

Published by The Daily Mail (15 March, 2018) Every now and then, there are times in politics when the world explodes into confrontation and a leader is defined […]

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Europe / Russia

Putin is winning his war against the West

Published by The i paper (5th March, 2018) The temperatures are below freezing with snow falling, but how sunny the view must seem for Vladimir Putin as he […]

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Europe / Russia

The World Cup has lost its lustre

Published by The i paper (4th December, 2017) I remember clearly the first World Cup that captivated me. It was Argentina in 1978, back in those distant days […]

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Europe / European Union / Politics / Russia / Technology

We need an investigation into Russia’s role in the Brexit vote

Published by The i paper (13th November, 2017) Every now and then, observing the strange state of global events, we must pause to remind ourselves we are witnessing […]

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Technology

How – through the news – we see our planet

Published by UnHerd (24th July, 2017) Over the past three weeks, my work has taken me to three countries on three different continents. First a short hop over […]

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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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