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Maria Pevchikh: Where does Russia's anti-Putin movement go from here?

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Vadym Prystaiko: Can Ukraine count on its allies?

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Enrico Letta: Is Italy set to choose a far-right government?

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Lindsey Graham: Trump and the midterms

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Tova Friedman: Learning from history

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Gwen Adshead: Getting inside the minds of murderers

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Gwen Adshead: Getting in the head of a murderer

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Pinchas Goldschmidt: Is the Ukraine war deepening Jewish anxiety?

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Olga Rudenko: Is there room for government critique in Ukraine's fight for survival?

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Olga Rudenko: Is there room for independent journalism during a fight for survival?

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Sir Peter Blake: What keeps his creativity alive?

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Krišjānis Kariņš: Is Latvia still vulnerable?

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George Monbiot: Surrounded by fear

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Shon Faye: The transgender issue

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Amrullah Saleh: Is resistance in Afghanistan viable?

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Albert Woodfox: Freedom after a life inside

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Gregory Doran: Why does Shakespeare still captivate us?

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Gregory Doran: Shakespeare is like a magnet

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The Singh Twins: Mixing art and politics

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Julius Malema: Is South Africa on the brink of chaos?

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James Lovelock: The future of life on Earth

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Fatih Birol: Could short-term panic derail the clean energy transition?

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Fatih Birol: Could the transition to clean energy be derailed by a short term panic?

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Sharan Burrow: Do workers have faith in collective action?

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Sharan Burrow: Have workers lost their faith in collective action?

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Omah Lay: Is there a universal message in his music?

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Ibram X. Kendi: America's unhealed racial wounds

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Nury Turkel: Will the world stand up for China's Uyghurs?

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Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda: Does Christianity in Iraq have a future?

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Meaza Ashenafi: What are the prospects for peace in Ethiopia?

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Omah Lay, Musician

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João Vale de Almeida: Have UK-EU relations become toxic?

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Semyon Bychkov: Artists speaking out against Putin

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Olha Stefanishyna: Will Kyiv get the support it needs?

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Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration

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Nicu Popescu: How can Moldova protect itself?

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Nicu Popescu, Moldova’s Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister

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Josef Aschbacher: Is Europe losing the space race?

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Vassily Nebenzia: Is Putin's plan failing?

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Fawzia Koofi: Do Afghans still have hope?

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Dr Njoki Ngumi – Artist and film-maker

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Dr Njoki Ngumi – Artist and filmmaker

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Brian Cox: From poverty to Succession

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Yuval Noah Harari: Covid-19 - a new regime of surveillance?

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Jens Stoltenberg: Has Nato risen to the challenge of Covid-19?

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Liu Xiaoming: Is China a victim of Covid-19 or the source of the problem?

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Dutch MEP Sophie in't Veld: 'Decline of the EU is possible but it's in our own hands'

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US Democrat Senate Candidate Jaime Harrison: Joe Biden 'bringing calm to the storm we're in'

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Luiz Henrique Mandetta: Brazil's sacked Health Minister speaks out

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David Miliband: President, International Rescue Committee

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Anders Tegnell: Is Sweden the best model for coronavirus response?

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French Minister for Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire: EU faces 'gravest crisis'

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Rocco Forte: Can hotels recover?

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Raghuram Rajan: Should economies pile up debt to cope with Covid-19?

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National General Secretary of India's BJP, Ram Madhav

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Mário Centeno: Can the Euro survive Covid?

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Rutger Bregman: Are humans essentially good?

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James Graham: How much do we care about protecting our culture?

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Mary Frances Berry: A new era in civil rights?

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Simon Cheng: 'We need to fight for democracy in Hong Kong and China'

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Epidemiologist Ian Lipkin: Are we getting the pandemic response right?

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Arancha Gonzalez: Why isn't the world working together?

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Kishore Mahbubani: Has Covid-19 weakened the West?

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Katie Hill: When a politician's nude photos are leaked

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Natalia Kaliada: Where do Belarus activists go from here?

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Natalia Pasternak: Brazil's battle between science and politics

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Sam Harris: A place for conversation in an angry world

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Alfre Woodard: The artist and the activist

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UN Secretary General António Guterres: Is multilateralism dead?

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Laura Kövesi: Can the EU's 'corruption buster' deliver?

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Frank Luntz: Can Donald Trump win?

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Gitanas Nausėda: Will people power take Belarus in a new direction?

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Douglas Ross: Can the new Scottish Conservative leader preserve the UK?

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Rafael Grossi: Is the world's nuclear watchdog being undermined?

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Thomas Chatterton Williams: Race, identity and power

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Leonid Volkov: What next for Russia's opposition?

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Yusef Salaam: How to reform the US criminal justice system

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Paolo Gentiloni: Can Europe's economy recover?

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Leroy Logan: How hard is it to root out discrimination in the police?

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James Rebanks: Sustainable food in a growing world

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Joe Henrich: Is Western society 'weird'?

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Narendra Taneja: How well has India handled the coronavirus crisis?

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Hermann Hauser: Is Europe failing to create tech champions?

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Neil Ferguson: Did the UK get its Covid strategy wrong?

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Admiral James Stavridis: The aftermath of the capitol riot

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Alan Rusbridger: Fact v fiction

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Virologist Barry Schoub: South Africa's covid situation 'is bleak'

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Alan Dershowitz: Trump's second impeachment

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Tamara Rojo: Ballet in a pandemic

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Kenneth Chan: Is democracy lost in Hong Kong?

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Lina Khan: Can big tech companies be tamed by US antitrust laws?

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Yuli Edelstein: Israel's Covid-19 vaccination programme leads the world

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Leonid Volkov: Protests on the streets of Russia

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Thomas Byrne: Ireland's twin challenge

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Madawi Al-Rasheed: Can the Saudi Crown Prince's authority really be challenged?

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Dr Soumya Swaminathan: Is vaccine inequity undermining the fight against Covid?

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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: Has Belarus’s revolution stalled?

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Evan Medeiros: How should Biden approach China?

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Laurie Santos: Can we learn how to be happy?

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Clément Beaune: Is Covid-19 exposing weaknesses in the EU?