“a robust campaign to tell the truth about Crimea is needed to counter Moscow”
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Anne Applebaum
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist and historian. She has written about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She became a Polish citizen in 2013.
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culture · American historian (born 1964) · historian · journalist · columnist · writer · non-fiction writer · correspondent · opinion journalist · also Anne Applebaum, Anne Elizabeth Sikorska, Anne Sikorska, Applebaum, Anne, Anne Elizabeth Sikorski, Anne Sikorski
Born 25 July 1964 · Q233479
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2026· 13 entries
“The Trump administration gives a green light to money launderers Casey Michel explains: https://www. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/ corrupt-administration-shell-company-business-transparency/688274/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK378wnJ_ftC-9fzt9tkWxUUE”
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“The experience of being chased by a murderous kamikaze drone, a flying machine that behaves as if it were alive, is not one that humans are equipped to understand: https://www. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/ ukraine-russia-war-drones/688183/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3yvXXowhckM14Qd7M9BY-1I”
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News24: From Gulag to Autocracy Inc: Anne Applebaum on why democracies can still win
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“Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. https://www. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/ ceuta-spain-far-right/688154/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31XDjpJVICzd-UsHf5DN21A”
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International Business Times UK: 'Cancer Inside The System': Anne Applebaum Warns Election Threat Will Outlast Trump
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“Why are Trump and Vance ruining the Fourth of July? Because it is hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them https://www. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/ america-250-july-4-idea/687749/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK35gHMHkra7ssspyohng6MUY”
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“Ukraine is not losing. And for Russia, that's a major defeat. https://www. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ ukraine-war-momentum-shift/687444/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK339Ii2SkHlPWX0PobpYV_fQ”
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“Democracy, Kleptocracy and more....with Steven Bartlett https:// youtu.be/kwEtOyaFhCA?si=iyv6nk SWJzAwbGOJ”
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“Four years ago, President Vladimir Putin offered Moscow and its business elite a de facto deal: Support my war in Ukraine, and in exchange you won’t have to think about it. In the past week, that deal was broken. https://www. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/ russian-discontent-ukraine-war/687131/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK39Am7Heilt35O-jz_mvjTXA”
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“Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason https://www. theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0 4/inside-kennedy-center-shutdown-drama/686801/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3xDLJM23SXratNn6C59_f6M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share”
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“How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law https://www. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/ illiberalism-not-inevitable/686778/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3wE9YcurPp32sueWzH4Inmw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share”
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“Illiberalism is not Inevitable https://www. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/ illiberalism-not-inevitable/686778/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK32zuGE3vqLJtJTyIvvK-8_M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share”
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2024· 4 entries
WSLS 10: US writer Anne Applebaum appeals for arms for Ukraine as she accepts German peace prize
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Yahoo: Anne Applebaum: Russia is ‘one of the world’s most unstable autocracies’
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Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (2024).
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Awarded Carl von Ossietzky Prize (2024).
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Princess Olga, 2nd class (2022).
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2021).
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2020· 2 entries
Capital Public Radio: Anne Applebaum's Latest Book: 'Twilight Of Democracy'
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“History Will Judge the Complicit”
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class (2019).
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Moved the program to the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University
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2018· 4 entries
"This Is Why So Many Journalists Are At Risk Today" highlighted attacks on press freedom by "authoritarian and autocratic regimes"
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Awarded Duff Cooper Prize for Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine (2018).
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Awarded Lionel Gelber Prize (2018).
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“A Warning From Europe: The Worst is Yet to Come”
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded Antonovych prize (2017).
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Published her third history book, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, a history of the Holodomor (the 1932–33 human-made famine in Soviet Ukraine)
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2016· 2 entries
“Is this the end of the West as we know it?”
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Left Legatum because of its stance on Brexit after the Euroskeptic Philippa Stroud was appointed CEO; Applebaum then joined the London School of Economics (LSE) as a professor of practice at the Institute for Global
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2015· 3 entries
“Russia and the Great Forgetting”
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“undo the terrible damage done by Facebook and other forms of social media to democratic debate and civilized discussion all over the world”
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That Facebook should take responsibility for spreading false stories and help "undo the terrible damage done by Facebook and other forms of social media to democratic debate and civilized discussion all over the world"
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2014· 3 entries
Maintained that the US and its allies should not continue to enable "the existence of a corrupt Russian regime that is destabilizing Europe", writing that Putin's actions had violated "a series of international treat
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“The Myth of Russian Humiliation”
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Wrote a review of Karen Dawisha's book Putin's Kleptocracy for The New York Review of Books; in it, she asked whether "the most important story of the past twenty years might not, in fact, have been the failure of de
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2013· 3 entries
Won Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature (2013).
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Awarded Cundill History Prize (2013).
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Applebaum gained Polish citizenship in 2013; she speaks Polish and Russian in addition to English.
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2012).
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By Doubleday (in the US) and Allen Lane (in the UK); it was nominated for a National Book Award and shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
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2010· 2 entries
The Washington Post: Anne Applebaum
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Awarded Petőfi Prize (2010).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Berlin Prize (2009).
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 3rd Class (2008).
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Began speaking about Putinism as an anti-democratic ideology
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2004· 9 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2004).
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“The archival record backs up the testimony of the survivors. Neither crop failure nor bad weather caused the famine in Ukraine.”
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“Starvation was the result, rather, of the forcible removal of food from people’s homes; the roadblocks that prevented peasants from seeking work or food; the harsh rules of the blacklists imposed on farms and villages; the restrictions on barter and trade; and the vicious propaganda campaign designed to persuade Ukrainians to watch, unmoved, as their neighbours died of hunger.”
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“Putin’s overt attempt to destroy a political opponent has a logic: If [Alexei] Navalny is showing his countrymen how to be courageous, Putin wants to show them that courage is useless.”
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“Trump's fawning attitude towards dictators is his ideology at its purest: He meets his own psychological needs first; he thinks about the country last. The true nature of the ideology that Trump brought to Washington was not “America First,” but rather “Trump First.”
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“[T]he living memory of the USSR is now truly fading and the nature of the USSR—its peculiar awfulness, its criminality, its stupidity—is becoming harder and harder to explain.”
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“Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated.”
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“Almost all of the men who currently rule Russia (and they are all men) were taught and trained by the KGB. Their teaching and training shows. Why would it not?”
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“In the quarter-century since the fall of Communism, we’ve forgotten what a cynical, unprincipled, authoritarian Russian regime looks like, especially one with an audacious global strategy and no qualms whatsoever about sacrificing human life.”
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2001· 1 entry
Interviewed prime minister Tony Blair
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2000· 1 entry
Applebaum described the links between the then-new president of Russia, Vladimir Putin; the former Soviet leader Yuri Andropov; and the former KGB agency
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1994· 1 entry
Published her first book, Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe, a travelogue that described the rise of nationalism across the new states of the former Soviet Union
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1992· 2 entries
In 1992, Applebaum married Radosław Sikorski, who was later Poland's Minister of National Defence, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marshal of the Sejm, and a member of the European Parliament.
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Applebaum married Radosław Sikorski, who was later Poland's Minister of National Defence, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marshal of the Sejm, and a member of the European Parliament
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1991· 1 entry
Returned to England to work for The Economist; she was later hired as the foreign editor and subsequently deputy editor of The Spectator, and later the political editor of the Evening Standard
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1986· 1 entry
Studied at Yale University (1986).
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1964· 1 entry
Born 1964-07-25.
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