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Timothy Snyder: Thinking about freedom in wartime Ukraine

by Timothy Snyder September 5, 2024

The following lecture was delivered in March 2023 at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy as part of a benefit conference to raise funds to support public outreach at Kyiv Mohyla Academy. The subject I have chosen for myself is thinking about freedom

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Timothy Snyder: Putin’s case for invading Ukraine rests on phony grievances and ancient myths

by Timothy Snyder February 2, 2022

Last July, Vladimir Putin supplied the mythical basis for Russian war propaganda in an essay titled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians.” The essential idea is that Russia has the right to Ukraine because of things that happened a thousand years ago in Kyiv. At the time, the

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Timothy Snyder: Thinking about freedom in wartime Ukraine

Timothy Snyder: Putin’s case for invading Ukraine rests on phony grievances and ancient myths

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