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Ellen Litman

Telegram Chronicles: Red Dresses and White Coats

Why can’t we all get along? Every time this question pops into my head, I cringe. It’s so banal, so Pollyannish. Not even a question but a…

4 min readMar 18, 2023

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Telegram Chronicles: Red Dresses and White Coats

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Ellen Litman

Telegram Chronicles: What does it take to discredit Russian Army?

Today, I want to tell you a couple of stories.

4 min readMar 7, 2023

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Telegram Chronicles: What does it take to discredit Russian Army?

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Ellen Litman

Telegram Chronicles: On Seymour Hersh and The Nord Stream Pipeline

I’ve come to think of this blog as a quiet place, with not much happening in the comment section, so imagine my surprise when my last post…

5 min readFeb 15, 2023

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Telegram Chronicles: On Seymour Hersh and The Nord Stream Pipeline

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Ellen Litman

Telegram Chronicles: Where do you get your news (about the war)?

It’s been nearly a year since Russia started the war against Ukraine, and there’s still no end in sight. As time goes by, the war continues…

3 min readFeb 9, 2023

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Telegram Chronicles: Where do you get your news (about the war)?

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Telegram Chronicles: What the West can do (Part I)

This morning I woke up to the news of another bombing in Ukraine: Vinnytsia. Town center. At least 20 dead, including 3 children. (You can…

5 min readJul 14, 2022

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Telegram Chronicles: What the West can do (Part I)

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Ellen Litman

Telegram Chronicles: From routinization to escalation

No way to sugarcoat this: the situation is getting grimmer. (Though I imagine that if you’re just living your life — either in Russia or…

5 min readJul 10, 2022

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Telegram Chronicles: From routinization to escalation

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Ellen Litman

Telegram Chronicles: Recent Conversations

It’s been a while since my last post (life got in the way), and I feel bad, because that’s the last thing I wanted to happen. It’s bad…

6 min readJun 21, 2022

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Telegram Chronicles: Recent Conversations

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Telegram Chronicles: It’s Becoming Routine

Back in February and early March, many of us believed (or at least hoped) that the war couldn’t possibly last long. It had to end soon…

5 min readMay 19, 2022

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Telegram Chronicles: It’s Becoming Routine

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Ellen Litman

Telegram Chronicles: “You’re In the Army Now”

May 9th is approaching, a big day for Russia, the day of the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. It’s a big date for Putin, too. It seems…

2 min readMay 3, 2022

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Telegram Chronicles: “You’re In the Army Now”

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Telegram Chronicles: Donbas and its War (a.k.a. “the last 8 years”)

In the last couple of weeks, Russia withdrew its forces from around Kyiv and announced that its true goal is to “liberate” Donbas, which…

8 min readApr 18, 2022

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Telegram Chronicles: Donbas and its War (a.k.a. “the last 8 years”)

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Ellen Litman

Ellen Litman

Ellen Litman is an American fiction writer. She grew up in Moscow, Russia and lived there until 1992. A former programmer, she now teaches English at UConn.

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