Mary Dejevsky

One of the country’s most respected commentators on Russia, the EU and the US, Mary Dejevsky has worked as a foreign correspondent all over the world, including Washington, Paris and Moscow. She is now the chief editorial writer and a columnist at The Independent and regularly appears on radio and television.

Mary Dejevsky: Could Europe's new order be the old one in disguise?

Turkey is looking increasingly outward, but not in our direction

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Mary Dejevsky: Into the frozen heart of Asia's cold war

Monday, 19 October 2009

Seoul Notebook

Mary Dejevsky: The postman doesn't ring even once

Friday, 16 October 2009

There was a time when it was simple, or it seemed so. There was the Post Office (with real, working Post Offices across the land) and there was the Royal Mail which had its coat of arms on the pillar boxes. And they seemed for all practical purposes to be part of the same thing.

Mary Dejevsky: He might look right, but he's the wrong President for Europe

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Iraq is Mr Blair's most blatant, but not only, disqualification

Mary Dejevsky: Rail chaos puts the brakes on Berliners

Monday, 5 October 2009

Berlin Notebook: I know this is Germany, where these things are not supposed to happen, but Berlin's S-Bahn has been out of action for a month

Mary Dejevsky: My problem with teenage mothers

Friday, 2 October 2009

When a Labour prime minister talks about placing teenage mothers in supervised hostels, you can be sure an election is in sight. Gordon Brown's excursion into this tricky area earlier this week was couched in conspicuously careful language. He spoke of teenage "parents" not mothers (no sexism here), of not wanting to leave them isolated, and of "shared homes offering a new start in life". In other words, it was all for their benefit rather than ours.

Do we really need to remind the police what crime is?

Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Mary Dejevsky: What’s shocking about the Pilkington tragedy is officialdom’s casualness.

Mary Dejevsky: Back to business as usual in Germany? Far from it

Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Merkel is likely to place more emphasis on self-reliance

Mary Dejevsky: Germany remains divided, despite Chancellor's election success

Monday, 28 September 2009

Pre-election polls showed that 49 per cent of voters wanted the Grand Coalition to continue

Mary Dejevsky: Rust-belt support transforms fortunes of former communist

Thursday, 24 September 2009

Germany's rust-belt, the Ruhrgebiet, is undergoing a faltering revival, but it remains perfect campaigning territory for the far-left party, the Left. One half of the party's populist dual leadership, the engaging Gregor Gysi, stopped off yesterday for a couple of hours in Duisburg, the erstwhile city of steel. He drew an enthusiastic crowd of 400 or so, undaunted by drizzle that turned to a downpour.