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The Russian trolling Putin
MOSCOW — Crossing swords with Russia’s ruthless President Vladimir Putin is not for the lily-livered: Even imprisonment could be a blessing compared with the possibility of being poisoned by nerve...
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Why the Trump scandal is good for Ukraine
When Ukraine got dragged into a scandal that could end in the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, it didn’t seem like good news — to put it mildly — for the country’s anti-corruption crusader...
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Estonia’s Russian reset
TALLINN — After a nightmarish experience last year crossing the paranoid Ukraine-Russia border, I was nervous about driving alone from Moscow to Estonia’s capital, Tallinn early September to sell my...
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Why we still take to the streets
Vijai Maheshwari is a writer and entrepreneur based in Moscow. He tweets at @Vijaimaheshwari. MOSCOW — The Joker with his chalky face and mocking red grin is everywhere these days. As demonstrators...
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Why are so many of the world’s top jobs still held by grumpy old men?
Vijai Maheshwari is a writer and entrepreneur based in Moscow. He tweets at @Vijaimaheshwari. Whoever wins the next U.S. presidential election will be the oldest person in history to have been elected...
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The leader of Belarus is using the coronavirus crisis to troll Putin
Vijai Maheshwari is a writer and entrepreneur based in Moscow. He tweets at @Vijaimaheshwari. MOSCOW — Belarus’ football team Dinamo Brest was, until recently, a minor squad in an obscure Eastern...
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Russia’s corona euphoria
Vijai Maheshwari is a writer and entrepreneur based in Moscow. He tweets at @Vijaimaheshwari. MOSCOW — It wasn’t that long ago, in early June, that Russia’s capital Moscow was eerily quiet as the...
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Russians ask: Is Putin’s coronavirus vaccine the real deal?
Vijai Maheshwari is a writer and entrepreneur based in Moscow. He tweets at @Vijaimaheshwari. MOSCOW — Not since underdog Russia beat Spain on penalties in Moscow during the 2018 World Cup have...
View ArticleThe nostalgia of Western moral outrage over Navalny arrest
Vijai Maheshwari is a writer and entrepreneur based in Moscow. He tweets @Vijaimaheshwari. There was something cathartic about the international community’s swift condemnation of the arrest of Russian...
View ArticleThe fall of Moscow
Vijai Maheshwari was until this week a writer and entrepreneur based in Moscow. He tweets @Vijaimaheshwari. When I was an aspiring writer in the humiliated Moscow of the 1990s, I remember admiring...
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