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Tony Barber

Financial Times

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Meloni’s European moment risks falling flat

Italy’s most successful premiers on the EU stage tend to be technocrats not professional politicians

08.01.2025 3

Financial Times

Tony Barber

A long nightmare of repression awaits Ukraine’s occupied lands

Any ceasefire that leaves Putin with his conquests will bring more Russification and denial of civil liberties

26.12.2024 3

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Tony Barber

Bliss was it in that dawn to be in retail

Putting executives on the shop floor is a great idea, but in the 1970s even lowly temps like myself loved the job

13.10.2024 4

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Tony Barber

Putin casts his net over Stalin’s exonerated victims

A legal review of rehabilitations combines propaganda with an insatiable impulse to rewrite Russian history

23.09.2024 5

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Tony Barber

Resist ‘fake news’ but don’t exaggerate its power

One hundred years on, the Zinoviev Letter illustrates how election results have deeper causes than disinformation

04.08.2024 10

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Tony Barber

Russian censors itch to trap zombie mice

The demand to ban a satirical novel underlines the shrinking space for free expression under Putin

18.07.2024 5

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Tony Barber