Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] the world as social networks. 15 Photographs have always been one of the easiest ways to judge a nation’s development. For example, those released of Prime Minister Putin are always a ‘look at me’ command, never interactive. He changes his accessories – most recently a lion cub – but the technique has not been […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] they arrived. This saved Rusal a significant amount of time and money. Among those who invested in Rusal was Leonid Blavatnik, a multibillionaire with close ties to Putin. Since 2015, Blavatnik has donated $7 million to ‘campaign funds controlled by Mitch McConnell’. (pp. 152-155). Blavatnik, one of the richest men in the world, has […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] all the redactions to properly fact check this information? There is then some truly odd obfuscation at Paragraph 57, which says that ‘a number of critics of Putin and the Russian government have sought sanctuary in the UK, fearing politically motivated criminal charges and harassment’ and the ensuing footnote says ‘These include such high-profile […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Monbiot have a solution? He does. This is his second last paragraph and his answer is the last word in it. ‘One of the answers to Trump, Putin, Orbán, Erdogan, Salvini, Duterte, Le Pen, Farage and the politics they represent is to rescue democracy from transnational corporations. It is to defend the crucial political […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘beholden to Russia’. Frum describes Trump’s election as ‘the most successful foreign espionage attempt against the United States in the nation’s history’ (p. 134). His ‘deference to Putin reverberated through the western alliance’ (p. 155) and more generally, he has ‘empowered dictators worldwide’ (p. 154). The damage has so far been mitigated, in his […]