Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] his company jets. The inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, took place in Kyiv four days later.136 US Ambassador William Taylor, chargé d’affaires at the Kyiv Embassy, spoke repeatedly to President Zelensky about Kolomoisky’s influence, which obviously reflected unease within the US Department of State. Taylor later recalled: The influence of one particular […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] his company jets. The inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, took place in Kyiv four days later.136 US Ambassador William Taylor, chargé d’affaires at the Kyiv Embassy, spoke repeatedly to President Zelensky about Kolomoisky’s influence, which obviously reflected unease within the US Department of State. Taylor later recalled: The influence of one particular […]

Mr Gibbs and Mr Goering

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] by Henry Ford to become the Ford Motor Company’s representative in Europe. He later worked for Lufthansa and in the mid-30s was an attaché at the German Embassy in London. In 1938 he married Grand Duchess Kira of Russia, the second daughter of Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, making him a cousin […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] his company jets. The inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, took place in Kyiv four days later.136 US Ambassador William Taylor, chargé d’affaires at the Kyiv Embassy, spoke repeatedly to President Zelensky about Kolomoisky’s influence, which obviously reflected unease within the US Department of State. Taylor later recalled: The influence of one particular […]

MR GIBBS AND MR GOERING firstperson

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[…] by Henry Ford to become the Ford Motor Company’s representative in Europe. He later worked for Lufthansa and in the mid-30s was an attaché at the German Embassy in London. In 1938 he married Grand Duchess Kira of Russia, the second daughter of Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, making him a cousin […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] his company jets. The inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, took place in Kyiv four days later.136 US Ambassador William Taylor, chargé d’affaires at the Kyiv Embassy, spoke repeatedly to President Zelensky about Kolomoisky’s influence, which obviously reflected unease within the US Department of State. Taylor later recalled: The influence of one particular […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] meantime, preparations commenced. Additional telephone lines were installed for press use in Dublin, and the White House helpfully confirmed the identities of the persons ‘attached to the Embassy’ for the President’s visit and even of his personal security detail.7 A frantic search commenced to find Kennedy’s remaining Irish relatives. Distant cousins were unearthed and […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] day’s proceedings. See or . 5 Maule Ramsay was interned on 23 May after evidence emerged of him having a close relationship with Tyler Kent, a US embassy employee who was obtaining confidential US and UK communications. After Ramsay’s arrest, Lord Marley obliquely referred to him in the House of Lords as the Nazi […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Ms. Ratner, she made a stop in London during a return flight from Berlin, and she met with Mr. Assange for approximately six hours in the Ecuadorean embassy. Ms. Ratner said Mr. Assange told her that Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron, were responsible for releasing the DNC emails to Wikileaks. Ms. Ratner said […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[PDF file]: […] to 1979 and who handled the money from Moscow — up to £100,000 a year — from 1958 to 1979. Falber met the man from the Soviet Embassy and got bags of money which he hid in the loft of his house until the money was laundered through the party’s accounts. This was the […]

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