Robin Ashenden

Do Russia’s conscripts deserve our sympathy?

Ukrainians and anti-war Russians have a common enemy

Russian military cadets outside the Kremlin (Credit: Getty images)
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Robin Ashenden
Robin Ashenden is founder and ex-editor of the Central and Eastern European London Review. He is currently writing a novel about Solzhenitsyn, Khrushchev’s Thaw and the Hungarian Uprising.

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