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: We've lost sight of our most fundamental rights
MPs elsewhere commonly enjoy immunity from arrest.
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Mary Dejevsky: We won't improve society by penalising stable relationships
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
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Mary Dejevsky: Why did the West ignore the truth about the war in Georgia?
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
The US and UK left the impression that Russia was the guilty party
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Mary Dejevsky: On this side of the Atlantic, there is a certain amount of wishful thinking
Mary Dejevsky: If you're good enough, you are old enough
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Among the considerations that Republicans hope will convince American voters to choose John McCain next Tuesday is Barack Obama's lack of experience. Like Hillary Clinton in the primaries, they have been asking whether this 47 year old first-term Senator from Ohio can be trusted to keep his nerve and do the right thing in a crisis. And it is true that Mr Obama, though not the youngest to seek presidential office, has little national or even state-level political experience to his name, and almost no senior executive experience at all.
Mary Dejevsky: The rush to rescue debtors is cruel on savers
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
The bias against savers is not new. Now we are about to be stung again
Mary Dejevsky: Where wealth is less about power than influence
Thursday, 23 October 2008
To the Deripaska I met, possessions were not what really mattered
Mary Dejevsky: Scottish independence: the dream that just melted away
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Alex Salmond was always going to struggle to gather enough 'yes' votes
Mary Dejevsky: Don't blame Thatcher for crunch and crash
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Her view of money was what she'd learned as a grocer's daughter
Mary Dejevsky: It's still TV, not the internet, that really matters in elections
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
In homes and bars, how did people watch the debates?
Mary Dejevsky: Amid the chaos, we should hail the triumph of Europe
Friday, 3 October 2008
The vast majority of European financial institutions are not in difficulty
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