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Not long after my wife and I came to live in the village of Vayrac in south-west France in 2013 we set up an English-French group...

Until very recently, the name Volodymyr Zelensky was probably unknown to most people outside Eastern Europe. How that has changed.

As my life is now in France, married to a French wife, I embarked on applying for French citizenship in late 2020, whilst still...

The events of the last few weeks in Ukraine have brought home to many in the West the realities of what we now call the geopolitical...

What do I know of Ukraine? Little, even now. I have never been there and have only been to Russia three times...