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Dr Matthew Parish
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International lawyer and Managing Partner, the Paladins Organisation, www.the-paladins.com; Executive Chairman, Ukraine Development Trust, www.development-foundation.org; Editor-in-Chief, Lviv Herald, www.lvivherald.com; World Economic Forum
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Lviv Herald article - Oleh: a true life story
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Oleh: a true life story
Tuesday 10 February 2026By Oleh ZhyntychkaIn May 2022, at the age of 28, I lost a significant portion of my savings due to fraud (which later caused me to have a problem with accommodation included), ...
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February 10, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Lviv Herald article - Europe’s return to the drill
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Europe’s return to the drill
Thursday 10 February 2026For much of the past decade Europe’s energy debate was framed as a moral contest: hydrocarbons were yesterday’s problem and the future belonged to wind, solar and electrificat...
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February 10, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Lviv Herald article - Donald Trump: is he up to the job?
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Donald Trump: is he up to the job?
Tuesday 10 February 2026The question of whether United States President Donald Trump may be suffering from diminished mental capacity due to age is both politically sensitive and medically complex. It...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Lviv Herald article - The deteriorating relations between Washington and Tbilisi
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The deteriorating relations between Washington and Tbilisi
Tuesday 10 February 2026Washington and Tbilisi used to speak to one another in the shorthand of certainties. Georgia was she who had been invaded by Russia in 2008, she who hosted Western training mis...
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February 10, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Lviv Herald article - The Panama Canal, Sovereignty and the Limits of Chinese Commercial Power
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February 10, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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Lviv Herald article - Recent developments in Russian missile technology
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Recent developments in Russian missile technology
Tuesday 10 February 2026Western Ukraine has always occupied a particular place in Moscow’s air campaign. She is far from the front line, she hosts logistics, repair capacity, training sites, power inf...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Lviv Herald article - A night at the Sacher Masoch hotel in Lviv
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A night at the Sacher Masoch hotel in Lviv
Tuesday 10 February 2026I found myself at the Sacher Masoch Hotel for the least romantic reason imaginable: electricity. Central Lviv was again in one of those long, city-wide absences of power that t...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Lviv Herald article - Russia's economy in February 2026
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Russia's economy in February 2026
Tuesday 10 February 2026In February 2026 the Russian economy looks less like a sanctions-proof war machine and more like a state burning through buffers whilst trying to pretend that the flames are ju...
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February 10, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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Lviv Herald article - The Return of the Mercenary: Russia’s Outsourced War in Ukraine
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The Return of the Mercenary: Russia’s Outsourced War in Ukraine
Tuesday 10 February 2026The mercenary—once denounced as a barbaric vestige of pre-modern warfare—has re-emerged not only as a battlefield phenomenon, but as a geopolitical instrument wielded with prec...
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February 9, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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Lviv Herald article - Odesa Under Fire: Infrastructure, Intimidation and the Human Cost of Russia’s Winter War
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Odesa Under Fire: Infrastructure, Intimidation and the Human Cost of Russia’s Winter War
Tuesday 10 February 2026The recent Russian attacks on Odesa form part of a grim and increasingly familiar pattern. As winter tightens its grip on southern Ukraine, Russia has once again intensified it...
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February 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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Lviv Herald article - The Munich Security Report 2026
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The Munich Security Report 2026
Monday 9 February 2026The Munich Security Report is never merely a scene-setter for the conference’s panel discussions. It is rather an annual attempt to define the emotional weather of Euro-Atlantic ...
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February 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Lviv Herald article - Artificial intelligence: optional work or global inequality?
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Artificial intelligence: optional work or global inequality?
Monday 9 February 2026The promises attached to artificial intelligence have begun to sound like the closing chapter of industrial history. Work will become optional. Incomes will be universal. Human b...
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February 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Lviv Herald article - Russia cut off from Starlink
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Russia cut off from Starlink
Monday 9 February 2026In early February 2026 Ukraine’s authorities said that Starlink terminals being used illicitly by the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine were suddenly deactivated—after a co-ordinat...
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February 9, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Lviv Herald article - The situation in Kherson
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The situation in Kherson
Monday 9 February 2026The security, military and political situation in Kherson remains one of the most acute and complex facets of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. Situated on the right (north) bank ...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Lviv Herald article - Sudan’s War: How a Revolution Unravelled into a Catastrophe
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Sudan’s War: How a Revolution Unravelled into a Catastrophe
Monday 9 February 2026Sudan’s present war is often described as a sudden feud between two generals. That is true in the narrow sense, but misleading in the wider one. Sudan did not fall into conflict ...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Lviv Herald article - The F-35 and the Gripen: a comparative analysis, and a Ukrainian context
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The F-35 and the Gripen: a comparative analysis, and a Ukrainian context
Monday 9 February 2026The F-35 and the Gripen are often compared as though they are answers to the same question. In reality, each is a carefully shaped response to a different national anxiety. The F...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Lviv Herald article - Ukraine's unseen heroes
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Ukraine's unseen heroes
Monday 9 February 2026Ukraine’s wars have always produced heroes who do not expect applause. They work out of sight, often unnamed, sometimes deliberately forgotten by the states they serve. Their her...
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February 9, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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Lviv Herald article - The demise of The Washington Post
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The demise of The Washington Post
Sunday 8 February 2026The slow fading of The Washington Post is not marked by a single dramatic collapse but by a sequence of managerial decisions that, taken together, ruin an institution that once d...
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February 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Lviv Herald article - Japan’s snap election and the return of the post-war centre of gravity
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Japan’s snap election and the return of the post-war centre of gravity
Sunday 8 February 2026Japan’s snap election of Sunday 8 February 2026 looks set to deliver what Sanae Takaichi asked the electorate for when she dissolved the Diet only months into her premiership: a ...
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February 8, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Lviv Herald article - Kharkiv’s closed lecture halls and the society they once held together
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Kharkiv’s closed lecture halls and the society they once held together
Sunday 8 February 2026Kharkiv has long been one of Ukraine’s great university cities. Before the full scale invasion, her reputation rested not only on the number of institutions she hosted but on wha...
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February 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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Lviv Herald article - Staying warm in Lviv
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Staying warm in Lviv
Sunday 8 February 2026By February the cold in Lviv is no longer a visitor; she has taken the spare room and unpacked. The apartment block in which I live holds its breath when the power goes, as if th...
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February 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Lviv Herald article - Why Gold and Silver Are Falling: A Retreat from the Ancient Havens
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Why Gold and Silver Are Falling: A Retreat from the Ancient Havens
Sunday 8 February 2026For much of recorded history, gold and silver have occupied a privileged place in the human imagination and in financial systems. They have been currencies, religious symbols and...
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February 8, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Lviv Herald article - What are the health effects of cannabis usage?
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What are the health effects of cannabis usage?
Sunday 8 February 2026Cannabis has travelled an unusually short distance from counterculture symbol to mass consumer product. In North America and parts of Europe it is marketed as a sleep aid, a pain...
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February 8, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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Lviv Herald article - Expatriates and Ukraine: opportunity, obligation and uncertainty
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Expatriates and Ukraine: opportunity, obligation and uncertainty
Sunday 8 February 2026For expatriates considering relocation, Ukraine presents a paradox. She is a country of immense cultural depth, human warmth and professional opportunity, yet also one marked by ...
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February 8, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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