Mary Louise Kelly

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Near Russian-controlled areas of Georgia, people are watching what happens in Ukraine

Friday, March 25, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports from the boundary line of the Russian-controlled area in northern Georgia, which saw heavy fighting during the 2008 Russian invasion.

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Meet the Russians who are fleeing — not the war, but their own government

Friday, March 25, 2022

Thousands of Russians have left their country since their government began its invasion of Ukraine. Many have settled in Georgia, a country with a complicated history with its neighbor to the north.

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Russia's current war tactics are strikingly similar to its 2008 invasion of Georgia

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, and many of the war tactics are chillingly similar to what we're seeing in Ukraine now. Did Russia develop its "playbook" 14 years ago?

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Editor-in-chief of Russia's last remaining independent TV station on media's role now

Thursday, March 24, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Tikhon Dzyadko, editor-in-chief of TV Rain, Russia's last remaining independent TV station that recently went off air. He and his family fled to Tbilisi, Georgia.

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Georgia president on balancing act of supporting Ukraine without antagonizing Russia

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the president of Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, who the Georgian government is threatening to sue over her support for Ukraine.

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Author Anne Tyler on writing her 24th novel and why she writes about families

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with writer Anne Tyler about her 24th novel French Braid. Set in Baltimore, the book tracks one family, the Garretts, across decades and generations

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Georgians fear they could be next as they track the war in Ukraine

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Georgia shares a border with Russia and was attacked by Russia in 2008. As Georgians follow the war in Ukraine, many feel nervous that their country could be next.

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The stakes of the war in Ukraine for Georgia, still marked by 2008 Russian invasion

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Kelly Degnan, the U.S. ambassador to Georgia, about the stakes for the country as war devastates Ukraine.

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Refugees from other wars see themselves in fleeing Ukrainians

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

More than 3.4 million people have fled Ukraine. As that number grows, refugees from other conflicts reflect on their experience of fleeing their home country and what life is like now.

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Thousands of Russians are traveling to Georgia to flee their own government

Monday, March 21, 2022

More than 30,000 Russians have arrived in the country of Georgia since Russia invaded Ukraine. Russians are fleeing not war, but their own government. And they say they can't go back.

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Refugees from other wars see themselves in fleeing Ukrainians

Friday, March 18, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with people about the experience of being a refugee, how fleeing their home country has affected their life and what life is like now.

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Deputy Secretary of State Sherman on Ukraine latest and talks between China and U.S.

Friday, March 18, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman about diplomatic efforts in the war in Ukraine and U.S. aid to the country.

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Marie Yovanovitch writes about being a key figure in 1st Trump impeachment in memoir

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, about her new memoir called Lessons from the Edge.

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Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine says no-fly zone has to be on the table

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch about the Russian invasion and the possibility of a no-fly zone over Ukraine.

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An anti-war protester in Moscow says the risk of arrest is worth it

Friday, March 04, 2022

Yulia Zhivtsova has been taking to the streets to oppose Russia's invasion of Ukraine. She wants future generations to know: "You see? I was out there. I was protesting. I was against this."

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How President Zelenskyy's wartime leadership has transformed his image

Thursday, March 03, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Emily Harding, who has been tracking the Russian invasion from the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, on Zelenskyy's wartime leadership.

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The Jan. 6 panel says Trump likely broke laws in trying to overturn the election

Thursday, March 03, 2022

In a court filing, the select committee says evidence "provides, at minimum, a good-faith basis for concluding" that Trump broke the law with his efforts to obstruct the counting of electoral votes.

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One witness describes the Russian invasion of Ukraine: 'I woke up and heard bombing'

Thursday, February 24, 2022

When 22-year-old college student Vitaliy Shutov went to bed last night, he didn't think a Russian invasion of Ukraine would actually happen. Then he woke to the sounds of explosions.

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Why Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons — and what that means in an invasion by Russia

Monday, February 21, 2022

Three decades ago, the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world. A lot has changed since then.

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Revisiting Donbas, a frontline in Ukraine-Russia crisis

Thursday, February 17, 2022

NPR reported from Donbas just a few weeks ago. We hear the voices of people we met there, after the news that Russia has increased shelling in the area.

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