Anne Applebaum

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Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer prize-winning historian. Follow me on Bluesky @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic. She is also a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University and a Pulitzer-Prize winning historian. Links to her articles and books, including "Gulag: A History," "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe" and "Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine" as well as her most recent book, Twilight of Democracy, can be found at anneapplebaum.com

18/06/2026

”When you’re living in a period of dramatic change, it’s always hard to know whether the change is positive or negative.”

In April I spent a few days with Zryw, a Polish non-profit organization that recruits young people to enter politics and public life. Their aim is to build a new generation of civic leaders in Poland. I’ve followed their evolution from the beginning; my son is one of the founders. (“Zryw” means “impulse” or “burst of speed” in Polish).

Julie Chmielewska, one of Zryw’s leaders, interviewed me at the event. Here is the conversation: anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/in-retrospect-poland-russia-europe

17/06/2026

Not only do we not know who would replace him, we don’t know how that person would be chosen.

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15/06/2026

It’s almost like a child’s idea of how power works.

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14/06/2026

If the story of the past two years was one of slow, grinding forward progress for Russia,the story of this year is very different. Since early spring, at the start of its annual offensive, Russia has lost more territory in Ukraine than it has gained.

Read here: bit.ly/ukraine-war-momentum-shift

14/06/2026

Clouds rolling in

13/06/2026

Ukraine is not losing. Russia is not winning.

Read the article: bit.ly/ukraine-war-momentum-shift

08/06/2026

Ukraine is not losing. And for Russia, that’s a major defeat.

bit.ly/ukraine-war-momentum-shift

Photos from Anne Applebaum's post 07/06/2026

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Photos from Anne Applebaum's post 07/06/2026

Vittorio Veneto, with and . Books in the Prosecco hills....

Photos from Anne Applebaum's post 02/06/2026

Kyiv, a normal city living its normal life on a Monday afternoon. There were missile strikes in the evening.

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