Lucy Ash
Broadcast Journalist at Freelance
Foreign affairs broadcaster and author; former BBC presenter. Author @iconbooks Trustee @JerwoodF
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1 month ago |
themoscowtimes.com | Michele A. Berdy |Howard Amos |Lucy Ash |Alexei Navalny
Pushkin House has announced the short list for this year’s Book Prize.
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1 month ago |
theneweuropean.co.uk | Lucy Ash
One autumn day in 2013, just a few months before Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea, I was on my knees in the mud searching for the remains of Russian soldiers. Next to me, Marianna was poking the ground with a small spade, while her friend Olga walked through the pine forest with a metal detector. At times it beeped furiously; the older trees were still riddled with bullets and shrapnel.
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2 months ago |
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Ash
As the third anniversary of the invasion approaches, Ukraine’s fate remains uncertain. The death toll mounts; war weariness and discontent are spreading in both Russia and Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia’s church stands firmly by Vladimir Putin’s side, giving a pseudo-spiritual imprimatur to an unprovoked attack on a neighbouring country. Russia’s president has framed his “special military operation” as a divine mission.
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2 months ago |
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Ash
As the third anniversary of the invasion approaches, Ukraine’s fate remains uncertain. The death toll mounts; war weariness and discontent are spreading in both Russia and Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia’s church stands firmly by Vladimir Putin’s side, giving a pseudo-spiritual imprimatur to an unprovoked attack on a neighbouring country. Russia’s president has framed his “special military operation” as a divine mission.
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Dec 3, 2024 |
theneweuropean.co.uk | Lucy Ash
Eight months into the Ukraine invasion, Russian generals faced a shortage of cannon fodder. The Kremlin responded with the first mobilisation, drafting 300,000 troops to offset heavy losses. This was the moment when Patriarch Kirill, head of the Orthodox Church, turned himself into a recruiting officer, promising eternal salvation to the young men being sent to their death.
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Russian Community sounds like an anodyne name but this ultra Orthodox group is one of the scariest so far: https://t.co/82AR6LAv1f
RT @LPressly: With @LucyAAsh - a story of religious conversion you probably haven’t heard about before… https://t.co/mLZZvfryFl
Why did "a soft, timid intellectual" call for Alexei Navalny’s murder ? What turned many smart, well educated and independent minded journalists of the 90s into Kremlin stooges? Read @AndreiSoldatov & @irinaborogan's brave new book about old friends: https://t.co/brr0xInVoF