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<title><![CDATA[Masha Gessen - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/28803.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Masha Gessen]]></description><category domain="28803">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[State Terror Has Arrived]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine's Democracy in Darkness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/ukraines-democracy-in-darkness</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With elections postponed and no end to the war with Russia in sight, Volodymyr Zelensky and his political allies are becoming like the officials they once promised to root out: entrenched.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[From Most Appearances, Moscow Is a City at Peace]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/how-putin-wants-russians-to-see-the-war-in-ukraine</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even if his hold on power is precarious, he can still convince Russians that the whole world is conspiring against them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The High Cost of Biden's Meeting With Putin]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-high-cost-of-bidens-meeting-with-putin</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To Biden, illusions are a hazard in foreign policy; to Putin, they are its currency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Movement to Exclude Trans Girls from Sports]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-movement-to-exclude-trans-girls-from-sports</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The opposition is cast as one between cis-girl athletes on the one hand and a vast liberal conspiracy on the other.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Evolution of Alexey Navalny's Nationalism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-evolution-of-alexey-navalnys-nationalism</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Russian opposition politician has placed the right to self-determination at the center of his politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President Is Shilling Beans]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President and his daughter Ivanka have been using their social-media accounts to advertise canned beans. On Twitter, she posed with a can of Goya black beans in her right hand, her left hand held as though cradling an imaginary cloud beneath the product.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Theme Park of Donald Trump's Dreams]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/a-theme-park-of-donald-trumps-dreams</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President's plans for a garden to house statues of American heroes make clear that he wants a vision of the past that's comfortable and easy to read.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Perverse Presidential Facade of Trump at SOTU]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To all those who hoped, against reason, in the fall and winter of 2016-2017, that Donald Trump would become Presidential: be careful what you wish for. After three years in office, Trump has become just that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Presidential, but in the only way that Trump could.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2 Irreconcilable Realities of the Impeachment Hearings]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two Americas began watching two very different sets of hearings on Wednesday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dangerous Bullying of Ilhan Omar]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-dangerous-bullying-of-ilhan-omar</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The freshman representative's fundamental positions are as uncomfortable for many Americans as they are indisputable. Her way of expressing them makes her easy to shun.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Resist Validating Trump's View of Sanctuary Cities]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-to-resist-validating-president-trumps-view-of-sanctuary-cities</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As often happens with Trump and his policies, this is more difficult than it ought to be.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trump-Russia Investigation and the Mafia State]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-trump-russia-investigation-and-the-mafia-state</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Oleg Deripaska, a Putin ally who once lent millions of dollars to Manafort, is important to the understanding the relationship between Trumpworld and Russia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Substantive Response to Trump's Hateful Speech]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/searching-for-a-substantive-response-to-trumps-hateful-speech</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember when the spectacle of a President lying and dissembling felt shocking?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trauma of Trump's Attack on Transgender People]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-trauma-of-the-trump-administrations-attacks-on-transgender-people</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s proposed definition of sex, which runs counter to scientific and social understandings of human variety, views anyone who is not clearly and immovably gendered as an anomaly.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Putin &amp; the Triumph of Nothing Over Everyone]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-and-the-triumph-of-nothing-over-everyone</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump-Putin summit, a meeting without an agenda, is the latest example of the ultimate innovation of the Trump Presidency: the deliberately empty gesture.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Orwell Predicted the Challenge of Writing Today]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-george-orwell-predicted-the-challenge-of-writing-today</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Orwell argues that totalitarianism makes literature impossible. By literature, he means all kinds of writing in prose, from imaginative fiction to political journalism; he suggests that verse might slip through the cracks.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michelle Wolf Blasts Open Fictions of the Age of Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-michelle-wolf-blasted-open-the-fictions-of-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, the comedian Michelle Wolf, performing at the annual White House Correspondents'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Association dinner, delivered the most consequential monologue so far of the Donald Trump era.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Very Soviet Fixation on Applause]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/donald-trumps-very-soviet-fixation-on-applause</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sometimes joke that growing up in the Soviet Union prepared me for working as a journalist in the United States. That joke has become less funny now that the President is positioning applause as a central issue of American politics. On Monday, before a crowd at a manufacturing plant, in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Donald Trump Degrades Us All]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-donald-trump-degrades-us-all</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Five'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and a half years ago, I filed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a story'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Times'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in which I used the word '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'dickhead.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' I had met with Vladimir Putin, and he had used that word. The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Times'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' struck it from the story. I disagreed with the decision, because I thought that Putin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s use of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sarah Huckabee Sanders's Degrading Press Briefing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/degrading-ritual-sarah-huckabee-sanders-pre-thanksgiving-press-briefing</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And it was over. The exercise had established that the White House press pool consists primarily of straight, pious white men. The press secretary had enlisted the reporters'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' help in mocking the purpose of the briefing; no information was conveyed from the White House to the public....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Should Al Franken Resign?' Is the Wrong Question]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/should-al-franken-resign-is-the-wrong-question</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Should'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Senator'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Al Franken'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' resign following revelations of sexual harassment? Michelle Goldberg,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' writing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Times, says yes, in order to preserve the momentum of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the current movement toward unprecedented accountability for sexual harassers.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Writing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Does a Watershed Become a Sex Panic?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/when-does-a-watershed-become-a-sex-panic</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Idols'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' are falling so fast that it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to keep track. The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Times'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' produced'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a growing tally of twenty-three men who have lost jobs, deals, film roles, and more in the last five weeks as a result of sexual-assault or harassment accusations. Most of these men worked in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Revisiting 'Rules for Autocracy' 1 Year After Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/one-year-after-trumps-election-revisiting-autocracy-rules-for-survival</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A year ago, panicked friends were writing to ask me what to do now that the United States had elected Donald Trump. Like I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d know: I had spent years writing and organizing in opposition to Vladimir Putin, only to have to leave Russia. But a decade and a half in Putin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Russia...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Kelly and the Language of the Military Coup]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/john-kelly-and-the-language-of-the-military-coup?mbid=social_twitter</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have to strain your imagination'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'all you have to do is watch Thursday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s phone call to a military widow, Myeshia...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Governs Like a Teenager]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-doesnt-govern-like-a-toddler-he-governs-like-a-teen-ager</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Trump dislikes international agreements. On Friday, he announced that he would not recertify the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' multilateral nuclear agreement with Iran. The day before, the Administration announced that the United States was pulling out of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' unesco. In the first instance, Trump was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Incompetence Won't Save Our Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/opinion/sunday/trumps-incompetence-wont-save-our-democracy.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Putin Nemesis Plotting a Post-Putin Russia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/mikhail-khodorkovsky-putin-russia</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A quarter of a century has elapsed since the breakup of the Soviet Union, and still we confront the problem of Russia. I write those words dispassionately, as if I were an outside analyst clinically twirling a globe. But as someone who carries both an American and a Russian passport, who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin Isn't Panicking]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/07/vladimir_putin_s_war_on_the_west_the_malaysia_airline_flight_17_disaster.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not since the collapse of the Soviet Union have so many American pundits and journalists offered such varied interpretations of so few signs coming out of the Kremlin. Everybody wants to know: What will Putin do about Ukraine in the aftermath of the downing of the Malaysian airliner?...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After Carving Up Ukraine, Where Will Putin Go Next?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/after-carving-up-ukraine-where-will-putin-turn-next/2014/05/09/17b86398-d623-11e3-95d3-3bcd77cd4e11_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Gessen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin has consistently explained his intervention in Ukraine by citing his concern for the security of ethnic Russians, Russian speakers and Russian citizens living there. This has caused the leaders of other neighboring countries with sizable Russian-speaking populations to...]]></description>
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