Arkady Ostrovsky
Russia and Eastern Europe Editor at The Economist
The Economist, Russia Editor. Author of The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War, winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize for Books.
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1 month ago |
economist.com | Anton La Guardia |Arkady Ostrovsky
Russia wants to talk to America over the heads of Ukraine and other European countries Mar 18th 2025|KYIV AND WASHINGTON, DCIF DONALD TRUMP hoped that Vladimir Putin would accept his call for an immediate 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine during their telephone call on March 18th, he was disappointed.
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Mar 27, 2024 |
dailymail.co.uk | Arkady Ostrovsky
The wake-up call in cell number nine of the IK-6 prison colony in the Siberian town of Omsk comes at 5am in the form of the Russian national anthem blasting from a loudspeaker. Each day, journalist and politician Vladimir Kara-Murza knew as soon as he heard the opening chord he had only five minutes before prison guards came to take away his pillow and mattress. By 5.20am his metal bed frame, attached to the wall, would be locked up so that he could not use it for the rest of the day.
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Nov 17, 2023 |
martinplaut.com | Arkady Ostrovsky |Martin Plaut
The EconomistNov 13th 2023ShareBy Arkady OstrovskyIn march vladimir putin will hold a presidential election designed to demonstrate support for his regime’s invasion of Ukraine two years earlier. His achievements in those two years should not be underestimated. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, millions displaced. Most of them are Ukrainians fleeing Russian missiles. But as many as 1m educated Russians may have fled their country, fearful of repressions and mobilisation.
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Nov 12, 2023 |
economist.com | Arkady Ostrovsky
The World Ahead | Europe in 2024Turkey and Azerbaijan hope to benefit from Russia’s betrayal of ArmeniaBy Arkady OstrovskyCompared with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or the horrors of Hamas’s attack on Israel and the ensuing conflict, the one-day war waged in September 2023 by Azerbaijan against its ethnic-Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh may seem like a blip.
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RT @ArkadyOstrovsky: A brilliant piece by @AlexGabuev which explains how the lack of Russia strategy and some of Western rhetoric have pla…
A brilliant piece by @AlexGabuev which explains how the lack of Russia strategy and some of Western rhetoric have played into Putin’s hands and how messaging needs to change. A must read https://t.co/k4VpBA2KHA
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