Luke Harding Quotes
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On 30 June 2010, the FSB broke into my office again. They unplugged the Internet, opened the window and left the phone off the hook,…
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Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national…
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There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells,…
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I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah…
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My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy - the meetings…
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Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred currency is dollars, though euros…
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Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former communist…
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Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.
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When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and…
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Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold…
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