Ukraine’s troubles: Into battle
UKRAINE is at war. The fighting does not admit to the name and it is low-intensity, but people are dying. It has elements of an insurgency, a civil war, foreign intervention and an information war....
View ArticleUkraine before the election: The battle for Ukraine’s future
ONLY a few photographs of dead fighters and flowers in the centre of Kiev recall the dramatic events that unfolded on Independence Square, or the Maidan, a year ago. The barricades and the encampment...
View ArticleCharlemagne: The battle of the scientists
AT THE end of a hard year Europe’s leaders are grappling with familiar problems—how to revive gasping economies, what to do about the Russian menace. But a quieter source of discontent is also bubbling...
View ArticleThe battle for a party’s soul
He said no, the party said go IF ANY political party can claim to have invented modern Spain, it is the Socialists. They have ruled for 21 of the 39 years of Spain’s restored democracy. Under Felipe...
View ArticleTurkey’s president invokes a millennium-old battle
When the Turks rode in IN A mighty motorcade, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, descended on the sleepy town of Malazgirt near the Armenian frontier on August 26th. He came to celebrate a...
View ArticleThe West is letting Ukraine lose its battle against corruption
UKRAINE is in turmoil—again. Protesters are blocking streets and chanting Bandu het! (“Bandits out!”). Smoke again permeates Kiev’s chilly air. The police are again trying to clear out protesters’...
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