Lucian Kim
@Lucian_Kim
Senior Ukraine Analyst @CrisisGroup, former correspondent based in Berlin and Moscow, author of forthcoming @ColumbiaUP book on why Russia invaded Ukraine.
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http://www.luciankim.com 10-12-2011 17:50:23
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The West sleepwalked into a conflict with the Kremlin. Unchecked hubris after the Cold War led the US and its allies to overpromise to Ukraine and misread Putin. My latest in The Wilson Quarterly:
wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/unde…
While everyone is talking about the situation on Ukraine's front line, there are also collisions on the home front in Kyiv. Read Konstantin Skorkin for more on Zelensky's purge and the further strengthening of his already powerful chief of staff. carnegieendowment.org/politika/92209
The Russian narrative on Nato & the West, summed up today in one interview – and one picture – in one Russian newspaper. #ReadingRussia
The front page of The Wall Street Journal today is devoted entirely to marking Evan Gershkovich’s one year in Russian captivity - a year of his life lost, 12 months without friends and family, 365 days of not doing the job he so loves #IStandWithEvan
'Release him now. He's a journalist who was doing his job.' Our report from Moscow about US journalist Evan Gershkovich. He was arrested in Russia one year ago this week. Producer Ben Tavener BBC News (UK)
The Wall Street Journal’s London office today. Hard to believe it’s almost a year since Evan’s arrest in Russia simply for doing his job. Let him go #IStandWithEvan