Eastern Radar

Stories from Russia & East Europe you missed

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Eastern Radar is a weekly compilation of articles, links and interesting stories about Russia, Ukraine and countries of the former Soviet Union that you probably hadn’t seen yet. There’ll be politics, economics, stories about corruption, culture, war and technology, tweets and academic articles and everything in between. At its core, this is a newsletter for anyone interested in Eastern Europe looking for stories that might make them contemplate angles and views they hadn’t considered before.

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What caused the wildfires that spread through Ukraine’s Luhansk region last month, killing at least nine people and destroying entire villages? The autumn was warm and dry, unusually so. And as the fires spread near the frontline between the Ukrainian military and the territories held by Moscow-backed separatist groups, Ukrainian officials quickly accused the separatist military of having caused the disaster by firing mortar shells and

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