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Atlantic Council: ‘From Odessa With Love’ (book review)

Vladislav Davidzon, a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, joins Melinda Haring, deputy director of the Eurasia Center, for a one-on-one conversation about “From Odessa With Love.”

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From the archives: Divisive Deals

Big speech by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Washington, D.C.. The early assessment is that he performed well in front of Congress, which may blunt some of the criticism of him for cutting deals to delay a free-trade pact with the European Union and grant autonomy to Ukraine’s eastern regions where Russia has been waging and supporting a separatist war. We’ve got a couple of great political stories on candidates for the Oct. 26 parliamentary election. Our Business Focus is on finance and investment. Our IT fellow is covering the UTGem conference in San Francisco. Azovstal steel mill’s efforts in Mariupol to keep working despite the war.

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