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Offending Mother Russia

Criticising Putin’s military incursion in Ukraine does not,contrary to a stifling new consensus, amount to racism

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

There are two ways guaranteed to extend the impact of a piece of journalism: query climate change and question the right of divorced fathers to see their children. I can now add a third: offend Mother Russia. On 4 March the Age ran my op-ed on the war and peace propensity of Putin’s Russia.

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