Best articles of the week.
Plenty on Ukraine, religion, Tibet, Israel...
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1) Excellent interview with historian Serhii Plokhy on Putin's revisionist history of Russia and his worldview.
Putin understands the Soviet experience as an anomaly that destroyed the Russian ethnic empire:
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2) on Russia's invasion:
"A country capable of replacing the ruling authorities in other countries is what we used to call an empire. Putin dreams of a world where nothing of great importance can be decided without asking Moscow"
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3) Excellent (pre-invasion) story by on how Ukraine has become much more European and disconnected from Russia after 2014.
Even Russian-speaking cities such as Kharkiv or Odessa (Judah visits them) became clearly Ukranian and European:
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4) Poland's Prime Minister on what the West should do in Ukraine and against Russia.
We didn't listen enough to Eastern European voices on Russia, so it's time to change that and seriously consider their take on how to deal with Russia:
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5) Why were there no protests in Tibet during the Winter Olympics in Beijing?
Most elderly Tibetans see no point in doing anything, and the young are divided between nationalistic and assimilated to the Chinese mindset and way of life:
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7) Very interesting conversation on religion between and .
Most interesting take to me was that intellectuals that understand their own work in religious (and less utilitarian) terms are more productive:
