Daniel McLaughlin
Reporter at Irish Times
Reporting on central and eastern Europe, mostly for The Irish Times
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Daniel McLaughlin
Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East Author: Victoria Donovan ISBN-13: 978-1917092142Publisher: Daunt BooksGuideline Price: £22Eastern Ukraine’s natural wealth has long been a blessing and a curse for people living there, creating jobs but also making the region a target for ruthless exploitation of its resources, often accompanied by disregard – or worse – for its residents.
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4 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Daniel McLaughlin
The man who arrived in Ireland in the mid-1960s as Austrian citizen Karl-Bernd Motl seemed to take quickly to Dublin life, renting a room in Howth Road, setting up as a travelling salesman, playing chess at a local club and starting classes in Irish. But Motl was in fact Yuri Linov, a Soviet spy trained by the KGB to speak and behave like someone from the capitalist West before being deployed there under a false identity to help the Kremlin undermine it from within.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Daniel McLaughlin
Three years after Ukraine’s army was desperately defending the port of Mariupol, the wives of soldiers who were captured when it finally fell are still fighting to bring them home from Russia, and have asked US president Donald Trump to help their cause.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Daniel McLaughlin
Doubts over a US-brokered truce between Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea deepened on Wednesday, as the Kremlin insisted that some western sanctions must be lifted before it would implement the deal and the European Union said Moscow must end its invasion if it wanted economic restrictions to be eased.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Daniel McLaughlin
Crimean Tatars, deported en masse by Josef Stalin in 1944 and subjected to Russian occupation 70 years later, have no illusions about Kremlin rule, but now fear the United States could push Ukraine to sign away their Black Sea homeland as part of a peace deal with Moscow.
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