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Isolating Russia is not the way to bring lasting peace in Europe Lea Ypi

‘Are the bunkers in Albania still working?” my 11-year-old asked on hearing the news that Russia had invaded Ukraine. “Some,” I said. “Why?” “In case there is a war in Europe, and we need to find shelter,” he replied.

I was his age one of the last times we “practised war” at school. At that time, all the bunkers worked, not only some – indeed, they were one of the few things to still “work” in communist Albania. Once or twice a year an alarm would ring and we would rush out of our classrooms into

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