Fiona Hill

Brookings Institution

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Director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution and author of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin; former National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council

Fiona Hill on KCRW

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Scotland Poised to Vote on Independence

It’s been 307 years since Scotland and England became the United Kingdom, but generations of Scots have never lost their yearning for independence.

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President Obama waited a long time before announcing America's delegation to the Winter Olympics in Russia.

US Winter Olympics Delegation a Statement to Russia

President Obama waited a long time before announcing America's delegation to the Winter Olympics in Russia.

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Russian authorities did not clamp down on massive protests in all that country's nine time zones over the weekend, despite repeated shouts of Vladimir "Putin is a thief" and "Russia…

Has the 'Arab Spring' Come to the Russian Winter?

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