I am honoured to have won the first Sylke Tempel Essay Prize, awarded by and , for an essay on nationalism and gender in Europe and beyond. Read my essay here, in German: zeitschrift-ip.dgap.org/de/ip-die-zeit
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The Armenian Railways website is now available in English, and will now sell Tbilisi-Yerevan sleeper tickets in either direction as an e-ticket. Previously, eastbound journeys had to be booked at the station, westbound trips could be booked online but not in English!
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En route to Berlin. My Substack newsletter this week is on open borders within the EU — and how we must not take them for granted:
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Back in Oxford for the Dahrendorf Colloquium on “Europe and Freedom”. Thank you for inviting me
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I will be in Oxford this week for the Dahrendorf Colloquium on "Europe and Freedom". Details in my Substack newsletter:
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One of Europe's train secrets: Kraków-Vienna promo tickets for EUR 10 via the *Polish* website. I booked Rzeszów-Vienna (a journey of over 7h) for EUR 20.
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On night trains. My next night train journey is Vienna-Zurich - looking forward!
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Today marks 80 years since the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -- a time still in living memory.
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80 years ago the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out. The #WarsawGhettoUprisingCampaign recalls the memory of this tragic event. This year, we focus our attention on the civilians.
Wear a daffodil pin to show that we are all #RememberingTogether!
More: bit.ly/Warsawghettoup
Wear a daffodil pin to show that we are all #RememberingTogether!
More: bit.ly/Warsawghettoup
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My Substack newsletter this week is on building resilience, in war and peacetime. You can read and subscribe here:
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If you see flights advertised as to "Warsaw Radom Airport", be warned: it is not in Warsaw.
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Random #etymology tweet: this week I learnt the Swedish word “tung” (heavy) and now I understand the etymology of “tungsten”, the rare earth metal — it means “heavy stone”.
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My substack newsletter this week is on lunchtime museum visits (even if you’re not a “museum person”):
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In Poland, an activist has been sentenced for providing another woman with abortion pills, putting the country’s near-total ban on abortion back in the spotlight, writes Annabelle Chapman ().
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My Substack newsletter this week is on Renée Gailhoustet, who won last year’s Royal Academy Architecture Prize for her "extraordinary contribution to social housing in France".
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A powerful compilation of Evan's coverage of wartime Russia, by the
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My Substack newsletter this week: on "Il Conformista", a truly European film set in prewar Paris and Rome.
This was a deeply personal story to write. Four years ago, after IVF in Moscow, I became pregnant at last. And so began an unexpected journey into Russian patriotism and nationalism. Read / listen to the audio here #InternationalWomensDay
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Poland says it will be first NATO country to give fighter jets to Ukraine.
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My Substack newsletter this week. You can read and subscribe here:
Europe train ranking:
Speed: France (TGV)
Nice seats: Germany (ICE)
Dining car: Austria
High-end dining: Switzerland
Night trains: Austria / ÖBB
Free trains: Luxembourg
Heroism: Ukraine
Others? Add below
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Thank you for reading The Zelensky Effect! The independence generation is indeed leading Ukraine through and out of the war “one to watch” indeed.
#thezelenskyeffect
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My Substack newsletter this week looks at a new book on #Ukraine: "The Zelensky Effect" by @oonuch and Henry E. Hale, which is out now on both sides of the Atlantic: annabellechapman.substack.com/p/a-new-book-o
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The only decent form of long-distance travel is train travel, all other forms of travel must be aufgehoben and resolved by teleportation because they are ridiculous and make one feel super-crappy
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For #Monocle, my dispatch from Euroshop, the world’s biggest retail trade fair, in Düsseldorf this week:
My Substack newsletter this week is on light in dark times, with thoughts from Berlin. You can read and subscribe here:
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My office today. German ICE trains are so good: a “desk” of my own, nice seats, decent coffee in the next carriage.
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Work this week: on a German train through the Eifel and on towards Köln. Also: Moselle vineyards.
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So much has stuck with me from the past year. This from a woman who survived Irpin is one I return to often. She was wearing an oversized coat. Her home was in ruins.“I had a normal life," she told me. "I did not look like this and did not have to wear other people’s clothes.”
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Powerful story in on families separated by the war in #Ukraine by , whom I had the pleasure of working with on the German half of the story:
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Olha and Andrii. Married for 13 years, fellow IT workers, and now their lives are unrecognizable to the other — one a refugee, one a soldier. This separation a defining part of the Ukrainian experience and we tried to capture what it feels like.
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The West needs to invest in experts on eastern Europe — Russia, but also Ukraine and others, as distinct countries with their own languages, etc. See this piece:
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A very important call from and 'to decolonize Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies—and to stop viewing the region through Moscow’s imperial lens' in .
We also appreciate the kind words about .
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In new issue of #Monocle, my article from Berlin on the , a midcentury building steeped in Cold War history. With photographs by Felix Brüggemann. monocle.com/magazine/issue
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"Vivre en Ukraine est une épreuve, une loterie et une fierté" : une des meilleures plumes ukrainiennes, , journaliste et amie chère, raconte son année dans
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Porozmawiałam Z #poprostuwschod o Obywatelskiej identycznośći Ukraińców. No i też o efekcie Żeleńskiego #TheZelenskyEffect
open.spotify.com/episode/7nWcxR
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