David Marples is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada. For summer 2014 he is Visiting Professor at the Slavic and Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan. Follow him on Twitter @drmarples
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Published in: oDRUkraine: the view from the westWhat is happening in Ukraine has provoked outrage and shock in the west. But do we really understand what we’re...
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s choicesThe current conflict in Ukraine tends to cast the country’s future choices in terms of membership of either the EU...
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Published in: oDR‘Minsk bombers’ executed: the questions that remainSometime between 11-16 March, the two men accused of planting a bomb on the Minsk underground were executed with a...
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Published in: oDRIs Ukraine heading East?On the eve of an EU-Ukraine summit on December 19, Ukraine’s relations with Brussels are deteriorating. EU officials...
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Published in: oDRBankruptcy and privatisation: the end of Lukashenka’s Belarus?
A failed economic model and falling transit subsidies from Russia have propelled the Belarusian economy to the...
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Published in: oDRBelarus: the president's dilemmaA dramatic devaluation of the national currency has combined with international isolation to plunge the usually...