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. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham and the author of the introductory essay to
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Mary Dejevsky: Will Israel still exist in 2048?
Friday, 30 September 2011
The choice might be between a fortress state and one so weak that federation with a burgeoning Palestine becomes plausible
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Friday, 23 September 2011
Two thirds of the way through your first term is no time to wobble on the death penalty if, as Obama appears to do, you intend to seek re-election
Mary Dejevsky: Undeclared gifts – and how they corrode public life
Friday, 16 September 2011
There was clearly an intense social whirl attached to the office of commissioner, and this appears to have been a milieu in which Sir Paul Stephenson flourished.
Mary Dejevsky: The other special relationship
Friday, 9 September 2011
The very fact of Cameron's visit to Russia will be hailed in Moscow as a sign Britain is ready to lay the Litvinenko affair to rest
Mary Dejevsky: When the middle classes flee
Friday, 2 September 2011
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