Mary Dejevsky

One of the country’s most respected commentators on Russia, the EU and the US, Mary Dejevsky has worked as a foreign correspondent all over the world, including Washington, Paris and Moscow. She is now the chief editorial writer and a columnist at The Independent and regularly appears on radio and television.

Mary Dejevsky: Don't silence those who challenge consensus

Dissenters from current orthodoxies are frozen out of funding and publication

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Mary Dejevsky: The UN fiasco over Zimbabwe is a re-run of Iraq

Tuesday, 15 July 2008

There was the touching faith in the miracles that can be wrought by drafting

Mary Dejevsky: Don't blame Russia – it's our fault as well

Tuesday, 8 July 2008

There is a view, enthusiastically peddled in certain British circles, according to which Russia is generally spiky, malevolent and anti-social. Every country in the world, the argument goes, has a problem with Russia – and this is how it will be until either Vladimir Putin leaves public life entirely, or his successor as president, Dmitry Medvedev, forswears the Putin legacy.

Mary Dejevsky: So we can't afford to drive. But here's the upside

Thursday, 3 July 2008

For complicated reasons, I have been doing quite a bit of long-distance driving recently. Yes, I know it is not green; it's an extravagant use of time, and now that a full tank of petrol costs upwards of £50, it makes a big hole in the bank balance. Sometimes, though, you have little choice but to take to the road.

Mary Dejevsky: There's no reason why the world should go hungry

Wednesday, 25 June 2008

My own eureka moment on the rise in food prices came earlier this year when I submitted my latest internet grocery order. The bill for "my usuals", give or take a few items, was more than 10 per cent higher than before – yet there was no additional luxury, such as fresh duck or a favourite brand-name ice-cream, to jack up the total so exponentially. A month later the sum was more again; and so it has gone on.

Mary Dejevsky: Do you really think our economic way is best?

Tuesday, 17 June 2008

In a neat reversal, the euro is helping to shore up our sinking high street

Mary Dejevsky: Women MPs should be able to claim for childcare

Monday, 9 June 2008

Ms Spelman's case shows how far the rules are written from a male perspective

Mary Dejevsky: So, when will a woman be elected president?

Thursday, 5 June 2008

The first turning-point of this year's switchback campaign for the Democratic Party nomination was surely the moment when Hillary Clinton came close to tears on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. In a matter of seconds, she transformed herself in voters' perceptions from steely candidate to fragile female. According to the pollsters at the time, it delivered for her the women's vote that she had lost to Barack Obama in Iowa.

Mary Dejevsky: The unexpected legacy of natural disasters

Tuesday, 3 June 2008

People's growing discontent is the danger to the regimes in Burma and China

Mary Dejevsky: Surely people have a right to know if crimes are committed in their area

Saturday, 31 May 2008

Some 15 years ago, the house we had then was burgled. Our music system, I am proud to say, was too antiquated to warrant attention; ditto the television, although the culprits had clearly investigated – and rejected – the satellite box, mistaking it perhaps for a video recorder. We lost some jewellery, a laptop and my husband's passport. It was a big inconvenience, but far from the trauma suffered by targets of more serious burglary.

Mary Dejevsky: Time to lighten up, even if not to light up

Wednesday, 28 May 2008

You probably won't believe this, I hardly do myself. But you have to credit the evidence of your own eyes, and lungs. And the evidence of mine, over the past two weeks in France, is that the French – yes, those pesky, rebellious French – are marking the 40th anniversary of their stupendous 1968 revolt by meekly observing their new ban on smoking in public places.

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