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Anna's Visit, From Avignon To Kyiv And Back

Anna's Visit, From Avignon To Kyiv And Back

Published Jul 4, 2022 Updated Jul 4, 2022 Politics
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Anna's Visit, From Avignon To Kyiv And Back

So Anna came by the office this week.

It was a warm and sunny Wednesday, and the first time we’d seen her in person since the war began. Anna had taken the train up from Avignon, where she’d told us it was much warmer than Paris. Summer, we’d all seen on TV, has also arrived in Kyiv.

Six months ago, back in the dead of winter, Anna was in touch nearly every day from Avignon — the southern city where she and her French husband had moved two years earlier — to recount and write stories about her native country. Among other things, she was deep into the psychological-profiling parlor game that the whole world was playing: What was going through Vladimir Putin’s mind? Would he do the unthinkable? Here’s an excerpt from a Jan. 12 piece she wrote for Worldcrunch:

Of course, no one knows

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