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Putin’s Playbook: Civilians As Targets
On the 100th day of Putin’s invasion, Sascha Lavin considers how and why the Russian President has pursued a brutal war against civilian populations in Ukraine and beyond
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100 Days of Tragedy and Triumph
In the first instalment of two reports on Russia’s invasion, Tom Mutch describes the barbarity of Putin’s aggression, and the resilience of Ukraine and its people
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Russia’s Deadly War on Journalists
The horrifying reports of journalists being deliberately targeted by Russian forces in Ukraine form part of Putin’s and his allies’ long war against the press, Sian Norris reports
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Boris Johnson ‘Bending Rules’ to Protect Alexander Lebedev as Russian Oligarch Cuts UK Ties
The Former KGB officer appears to be cutting his financial ties to the UK as Johnson’s Government refuses to join Canada in sanctioning him, reports Adam Bienkov
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What Man Has Made of Man: Confessions of an Optimist
Alexandra Hall Hall considers the mistakes she has made in believing that the arc of history was travelling in a more progressive direction
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War in Ukraine: What Happens Next?
Kyiv-based Paul Niland considers how Vladimir Putin’s invasion will play out in the wake of significant losses by the Russians across Ukraine
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The Forgotten Russia Report of 2008: How Ukraine is Paying the Price for Our Catastrophic Mistakes
Fourteen years ago, Andrew Levi briefed the Labour Foreign Secretary on the dangers of Putin’s Kremlin. Now the terrifying predictions of that report have been vindicated, it is vital to reckon with our failures
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Boris Johnson has Not Been a ‘Great War Leader’
The claim that the Prime Minister has shown Churchillian solidarity with Ukraine does not stand up to scrutiny, says Sam Bright
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US Justice Department Case Against Paul Manafort Re-Opens Trump Campaign’s Ukraine, Russia and Cambridge Analytica Connections
As the US Justice Department sues pardoned Paul Manafort over undisclosed foreign banks accounts, Zamaan Qureshi follows the financial links with Putin’s oligarch Oleg Deripaska and a Russian intelligence agent
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‘War Is War But You Need to Carry on Living’: The Beginning of the Rebuilding of Ukraine
A trip through the ruined towns around Kyiv is a story of resilience in the face of horror, finds Tom Mutch
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‘I Looked Outside: Apocalypse’ Easter in Odesa
Zarina Zabrisky visits the site of a high-rise residential building in Odesa shelled by Russian forces on Orthodox Easter Saturday
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The ‘Madman Despot’ Theory Only Serves to Embolden Vladimir Putin
Dimitris Dimitriadis and Iain Overton explore how accusations of insanity serve to strengthen the Russian President’s hand in Ukraine
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Why is ‘Putin’s Rasputin’ Still on Facebook?
A Byline Times investigation reveals that Aleksandr Dugin is still sharing conspiracy theories and disinformation with his thousands of followers
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Down Vladimir Putin’s Disinformation Rabbit Hole
Steven Lacey speaks to Sian Norris about why he fell for pro-Putin disinformation – and how open conversation and debate helped him escape out of the rabbit hole
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Putin’s War On Net Zero: Controlling ‘Europe’s Breadbasket’ to Prevent Russia’s Fossil Fuel Collapse
Russian Government-backed scientific studies suggest that the war in Ukraine is the world’s first rear-guard military attack on the global climate movement, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Tackling Climate Change is the Best Way to Defeat Putin
The West has an incredibly powerful weapon against Russia which it has so far refused to use, argues Mike Buckley.
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Five Things Ukrainians Want You To Understand Now
Chris York provides an insight into Ukrainian perceptions of the war, and how they believe it is being misrepresented abroad
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The Church of Putin
Reverend Joe Howard explores how the Russian President has won support from US evangelicals and his playbook matches that of the European far-right
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How an Influential Pro-Russian Business Network Worked Silently Within Westminster for Decades
TJ Cole explores how the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce has attempted to shape UK politics and trade for more than a century
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Backwards Britain: Having Rejected a European Future, We Can Only Hark Back to an Imperial Past
Hardeep Matharu explores how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has exposed the UK’s perilous retreat – at a time when collaboration and a new vision of itself is required to navigate the dangerous realities of a changing world
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‘Trapped in a Cocoon of my Own Grief’: Putin’s Promise of ‘Liberation’ Brings Terror to Donbas
Tom Mutch reports on the plight of Ukrainian families that remain trapped in Russian-controlled enclaves
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Official Documents Show Government is Falling into Another Russia Trap – With Saudi Arabia
The Byline Intelligence Team has obtained internal official briefing notes showing how the Government is making overtures to Saudi Arabia on multiple fronts
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The West is Playing Chess, While Russia and China are Playing Checkers
Events over the past two months have flipped the perception of the geopolitical world on its head, says CJ Werleman
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Macron and the Long March of the French Far-Right
Radical right-wing forces in France will not be buried by a second Macron presidency, says Shafi Musaddique
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Sanctioned Russian Firms Allowed to Flaunt Human Rights, Anti-Corruption Credentials by UN
Have Kremlin-backed companies used the international peace system to launder their reputations? Dimitris Dimitriadis explores
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‘They Have their Own Version of the Truth. We Are Living Ours’: Sandbagging in Odessa
Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko has vowed to be a ‘professional witness’ of the war in Ukraine. Here, she journeys through Odessa. Translated from Russian by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse
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Chornobyl and Nuclear Terrorism
Zarina Zabrisky speaks to an engineer at the Ukrainian nuclear plant about the risks posed by Russia’s invasion and control of the facility
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Rishi Sunak’s Russian Hypocrisy Shows Who he is Really Protecting
The Chancellor told UK firms to cut ties with Russia – while his own family has kept hundreds of millions of pounds of shares in a company still operating in Moscow
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Welcome to the New Global Arms Race
CJ Werleman assesses the West’s response to Russia and China’s aggression and what this means for future global security
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Putin’s Unjust War and the Enabling of Monsters
Otto English explores the Russian President’s warped justifications for the invasion of Ukraine that should terrify us all
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‘Profiting from Putin’s Russia’: Quarter of Council Pension Funds Invested in Russian Firms
Sascha Lavin reviews the extent to which UK councils have propped up the companies linked to Putin’s war effort
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Russian-Led Attacks More Deadly for Civilians
Although US forces have killed more civilians in conflicts over the past decade, Russian-led attacks using explosive violence are more lethal per incident to civilians, Sian Norris reports
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Will Voters Back Putin’s Parties in Europe?
In the coming weeks, France and Hungary will cast their votes for either far-right, pro-Putin candidates or the opposition. Will the elections create the Europe the Kremlin wants to see?
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‘Violent’ Climate Activists Next Global Threat, says Lobbying Group Funded by Russia and Big Oil
What do NATO and Putin have in common? A mortal fear of climate protestors rooted in their systemic fossil fuel addiction, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Russia’s Long War and a Pivotal Moment in History
Canadian diplomat and politician Christopher Alexander argues that Putin is still fighting the wars of the 20th Century, and reversing his invasion of Ukraine could finally put those ghosts to rest
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Taking on Putin’s People: Journalists on Another Frontline
Elizabeth Wiggin describes the threats, humiliation, financial ruin and worse that face investigative journalists taking on powerful oligarchs, and the campaign to stop it
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Looting the Land: Is Ukraine’s Black Earth a Reason for Putin’s Invasion?
Now sabotaging Russian tanks, Ukraine’s rich soil may be the prize that Putin seeks from his violence, write Dimitris Dimitriadis and Iain Overton
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Boris Johnson’s PR Guru Advising Firm Whose Founder Worked with Putin’s Top Energy Crony
A tangled web of influence from Gazprom to the Conservative Party to GB News – at its epicentre is a Tory PR lobbyist who played a key role in Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign
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Amongst the Noblemen: How Russian Money Bought the British Class System
Charlotte Robinson explores the ways in which oligarchs have managed to embed themselves in the aristocracy
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‘We Have to Start Our Lives From A New Page’: The Young Women’s Dreams Being Destroyed By Putin’s War
Between fear and the future, Chris York reports from Poland about how the Russian President has upended so many Ukrainian lives
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Ending the War is More Important Than Removing Putin
The West may have to accept the Russian President crawling back to Moscow with his regime still alive, contends Mike Buckley
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Lebedev: The KGB Spy Who Helped Put Putin in the Kremlin
John Sweeney digs deeper into the past of Alexander Lebedev, whose connections to the Russian President and the British Prime Minister are a source of major public concern
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The Johnson-Lebedev Letters: A Back-Channel to Vladimir Putin?
Letters exclusively obtained by Byline Times, between Boris Johnson and Evgeny Lebedev, shed new light on how the son of a Russian oligarch and former KGB officer built such a close relationship with Britain’s Prime Minister
