Anne Applebaum
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
Not only do we not know who would replace him, we don’t know how that person would be chosen.
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It’s almost like a child’s idea of how power works.
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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
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.
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07/06/2026
The original version
07/06/2026
Vittorio Veneto, with and . Books in the Prosecco hills....
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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