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Hugh Barnes

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Hugh Barnes is a war reporter and author of three books (Special Effects, Gannibal and Understanding Iran) and editor of green-socialist.com

Articles By Hugh Barnes

20 Days in Mariupol review - carnage in a dying Ukrainian city

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Strange Way of Life review - Pedro Almodóvar's queer Western

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Side By Side Ukrainian Film Festival, Curzon Soho - cameras of courage and resistance

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Mercy Falls review - horror in the Highlands

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The Red Shoes: Next Step review - teen dancer's crisis

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Lie With Me review - a bittersweet enchantment

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Masha Karp: George Orwell and Russia review - dystopia's reality

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A Kind of Kidnapping review - claustrophobic class-division satire

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Andrey Kurkov: Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv review - a city speaks its multitudes

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The Blue Caftan review - unstitching repression in Morocco

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Harka review - when hope is a desert

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The Laureate review - a romp with Robert Graves

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A. Anatoli: Babi Yar - The Story of Ukraine's Holocaust review - a masterpiece uncensored

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Pamfir review - a retired Ukrainian smuggler is forced to do one last job

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Janet Malcolm: Still Pictures - On Photography and Memory review - a rare glimpse at a guarded personal history

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Disbelief - 100 Russian Anti-War Poems (ed. Julia Nemirovskaya) review - writing battle-lines

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