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One of the strange things about doing publicity is that a mistake in a newspaper profile long ago is repeated and amplified over time.

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When I'm in Jerusalem, I stay at the American Colony Hotel, neutral territory: the secret peace talks of 1992/3 started there.

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The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family's home life during the last years of Russian autocracy.

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I can never resist Ruritanian intrigue: I was once charged with the task of offering the Estonian throne to Prince Edward. Feeling like a Dumas Musketeer on a mission, I did so, but he turned it down.

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A book's title is vital.

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Gay weddings will be remembered as Tony Blair's greatest achievement!

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If only all straight weddings could be somehow gay-ified.

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The West is pathetically naive about Russian reformers. We long to believe they are real liberals, but no liberal will ever rule Russia.

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No one can take away the experience of Yeltsin's freedoms, but Russian democracy will never follow Western models: other authoritarian 'controlled democracies' - Turkey, Taiwan, Mexico - ultimately developed into democracies. But it took decades.

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Yeltsin was admirable but flawed, noble but tainted, but in his own negligent grandeur, he undermined his own real achievements - and accelerated their ruin.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: June 27th, 1965

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