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Live Audio: The West is provoking a new Cold War with Russia

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The latest Spectator / Intelligence Squared debate – The West is provoking a new Cold War with Russia – starts at 18:45.

Speaking for the motion are the journalist Anatole Kaletsky; the award-winning historian Norman Stone; and Alexei Pushkov, the anchor of the popular Russian TV programme Post Scriptum.  They will be opposed by the journalist Edward Lucas; Dr Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Ronald D. Asmus, Executive Director of the Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.  The debate will be chaired by Jonathan Freedland.

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