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The scheme has long been used by global pariahs like Iran and North Korea, as well as drug cartels, said Elisabeth Braw, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who has researched and written about shadow fleets.
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Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
After Stalin’s death in 1953, expressing discomfort with one’s place in the Communist paradise was no longer necessarily fatal, and a new underclass of pariahs—many poets and scientists among them—became a subversive force.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
The two nations, both pariahs in the West, have forged increasingly warm ties since Russia’s invasion.
—Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
The two parties do cooperate in government at regional level, but they would be treated as pariahs by the rest of Europe.
—Mark Gilbert, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2016
Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
After Stalin’s death in 1953, expressing discomfort with one’s place in the Communist paradise was no longer necessarily fatal, and a new underclass of pariahs—many poets and scientists among them—became a subversive force.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
The two nations, both pariahs in the West, have forged increasingly warm ties since Russia’s invasion.
—Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
The two parties do cooperate in government at regional level, but they would be treated as pariahs by the rest of Europe.
—Mark Gilbert, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2016
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