The first Leopard tank arrived in Kyiv in a blizzard of rumours about graft

by Rashmee

Posted on February 9, 2023


On February 7, the first German Leopard 2 tank arrived in Kyiv, with another 100 …

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Putin’s naglost on Ukraine is a feature, not a bug

by Rashmee

Posted on November 25, 2022


Facing reverses on the battlefield, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin is doing his worst, targeting Ukrainian …

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UN’s impotence on Ukraine underlines the need for real decolonisation – of the international architecture 

by Rashmee

Posted on November 23, 2022


The Pope’s description of Ukrainians as suffering from the “martyrdom of aggression” has come into …

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Ukraine showed there are things worse than American power: Russian power

by Rashmee

Posted on April 4, 2022


The Russian invasion of Ukraine has marked a separation between old and new ways of …

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Ukraine

by Rashmee

Posted on April 2, 2022


Three days after Britain launched its Home for Ukraine website on March 14, more than …

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Marina Lewycka on the ambiguities of being Ukrainian

by Rashmee

Posted on March 19, 2022


On her website, British Ukrainian novelist Marina Lewycka offers some observations on eastern Ukraine, …

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Why parse world’s reaction? To get the truth, not what you wish were the truth

by Rashmee

Posted on March 14, 2022


On the very day that Ethiopia was flying the flag for Russia so to speak, …

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Russia has undoubtedly won friends and influenced people in Africa

by Rashmee

Posted on March 13, 2022


Countries across the African continent have suited themselves in their response to Russia’s invasion of …

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Breaking down the ‘world’ reaction to Putin’s war

by Rashmee

Posted on March 12, 2022


No matter what the western media reports, claiming it as “the world’s” reaction to Vladimir …

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Ukraine as a worthy cause…parsing the ‘world’s’ reaction

by Rashmee

Posted on March 11, 2022


The Ukraine situation is a useful moment to appraise the state of “the world’s” media. …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK