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Shaun Walker

@shaunwalker7

Covering central/eastern Europe for The Guardian. Author of The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past.
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Spoke to new Polish foreign minister ⁦Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺⁩, just back from Kyiv.

“The Ukrainians are tired, but only they are entitled to be tired by this war. We in this west don’t have the right to be tired, because we are not making any sacrifices” theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

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He remembered sheepdogs from his Soviet youth but did not know people kept miniature dogs that looked like toys. He was fascinated by the way people dressed, by the buildings and by what cars looked like in 2022. The last time he could see, most of the cars had been Ladas...

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Spoke to Poland’s new justice minister Adam Bodnar about the new government’s plans for restoring rule of law in the country and the potential pitfalls/obstacles

theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

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Wrote this on the 4,500+ UKR servicemen & women still held as POWs in Russia, the families stuck without them over the holidays, and the stories of torture - beatings, electric shocks, humilitation - of those who returned.

With photos by Julia Kochetova

theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

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Wrote this from Izium, where the psychological scars of 5mths of Russian occupation last year are still present alongside material damage.
The dilemmas Ukraine faces on defining/punishing collaboration haven't been faced on this scale since WW2 aftermath
theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

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I spent a couple of days in Zakarpattia with the Hungarian minority community that’s at the centre (at least ostensibly) of Hungary-Ukraine relations as Orban threatens to block Ukraine’s EU accession. A strange and fascinating place… theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

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A piece from Kyiv, Budapest and Brussels on Orbán's plan to torpedo Ukraine's EU accession.

Orbán loves to block as a bargaining tactic and then fold at the last minute but lots of people worry that this time it's different and he won't budge. theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

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I wrote this piece on the current atmosphere/mood in Kyiv - which is probably the gloomiest since the war began as internal/external issues pile up and people no longer believe that victory is around the corner theguardian.com/world/2023/nov…

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As the ten-year anniversary of the start of Maidan approaches on Tuesday, I spoke to Mustafa Nayyem, whose Facebook post provided the initial spark, and who now runs Ukraine’s reconstruction agency theguardian.com/world/2023/nov…

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Some good news: Poland has kicked its populist government out of power. What was behind the record voter turnout? And as the far right marches on, what lessons can the rest of Europe take from this election? I speak to Shaun Walker

theguardian.com/news/audio/202…

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I asked Barbara Nowacka, Civic Coalition MP, what an opposition win would mean for Polish women:

'Safety. Finally safety. Young women won't be afraid to get pregnant, young women won't be afraid to go to the doctor.'

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Celebratory vibes in Tusk's Civil Coalition headquarters where Tusk declared victory just minutes after an exit poll showed opposition coalition should be possible (if exit poll correct). Everyone very confident they've done it.

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Wrote this long piece on the deaths, violence and starvation at the Poland-Belarus border, and how an ongoing humanitarian crisis has been turned into electoral capital:

theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…

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Government ministers have variously compared director Agnieszka Holland to a Nazi, a Stalinist, and have asked cinemas to play “a specially prepared clip that shows the elements that were missing in this film” before screenings of the film… theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…

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I wrote this longish piece on one of the war's weirder alliances: the group of far-right Russian nationalists fighting on Kyiv's side.

“If we had met 10 years ago on the outskirts of Luton we might have had a fight. But now I’m a grownup.”

theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…

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'What the hell are we doing in Ukraine? It’s madness and it needs to stop.”

Extraordinary story from Pjotr Sauer on a man who has spent 40 years finding the remains of Soviet WW2 soldiers.

Extra layer: his son died fighting for Wagner in Ukraine.

theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…

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Orban to Tucker Carlson betting even more heavily than usual on Trump re-election:

“His foreign policy was the best one for the world in the last several decades”

“Trump is the man who can save the Western world and probably human beings as well.”

abouthungary.hu/blog/pm-orban-…

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