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Standpoint's Mole in Moscow compares life for the intelligentsia under Putin with the Soviet era

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The officers who tried to kill Hitler were spurred on by a deep sense of shame and guilt

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Edward Lucas and Mary Dejevsky, both leading commentators on Russia and eastern Europe, discuss the Georgian crisis and its implications for the West

The mysterious appeal of Alan Furst's 'historical espionage' novels

No novelist since Stevenson imparts so much energy into simple-seeming sentences through inch-perfect phrasing and punctuation