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Michael Shafir served as a supervisory research analyst at the Open Media Research Institute in Prague, Czech Republic, from January 1995 to March 1997.
In East-Central Europe, neither physical proximity nor memories of Soviet domination have united countries in their response to the war in Ukraine. What matters most is who stands to benefit.
