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		<title>A Belgrade Diplomatic Fantasy</title>
		<link>https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/sianmacleod/2023/06/12/a-belgrade-diplomatic-fantasy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sian MacLeod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[UK in Serbia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[digital diplomacy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a diplomat living or working in a historic building you find yourself thinking about the people who occupied the same physical and professional space before you. This is natural curiosity, interest in historic events and a wish to understand past relationships that underpin present day ones. I hope the Financial Times will forgive me [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dear Serbia</title>
		<link>https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/sianmacleod/2023/06/05/dear-serbia/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sian MacLeod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 15:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Serbia, I first arrived in Belgrade in the mid-1980s by train as a student with a small tent. I caught a number 53 bus to the campsite that used to next to the ‘Kamp Košutnjak’ café. Had I known then what the future held for me, I could have looked across the valley to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Challenges, risks and threats</title>
		<link>https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/sianmacleod/2023/04/25/challenges-risks-and-threats/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sian MacLeod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2023 08:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia's invasion of Ukraine]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 24 February 2022 the world watched with horror and disbelief as Vladimir Putin had launched his illegal, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Many people including in Serbia did not to believe or want to believe that Moscow would take such a reckless step, particularly against another Slavic nation with many historic, family and cultural ties [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ukraine one year on: look back in anger</title>
		<link>https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/sianmacleod/2023/02/20/ukraine-one-year-on-look-back-in-anger/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sian MacLeod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 17:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 24 February 2022 the world watched with horror and disbelief as Vladimir Putin launched a full scale, illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. One year on that horror and disbelief is mixed with anger and sorrow. At the senseless loss of tens of thousands of lives &#8211; Ukrainian and Russian. At the callous disregard [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisdom, Trust and Remembrance</title>
		<link>https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/sianmacleod/2022/11/17/wisdom-trust-and-remembrance/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sian MacLeod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia's invasion of Ukraine]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Citizens look to their national leaders to govern responsibly and in the interests of their country. They hope that leaders will be blessed with wisdom and good judgement, and that they will exercise their authority responsibility.  In return, leaders earn the trust of the people they govern. In democratic societies people are free to make [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Displacement and destitution – the global consequences of Russia’s invasion</title>
		<link>https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/sianmacleod/2022/07/04/displacement-and-destitution-the-global-consequences-of-russias-invasion/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sian MacLeod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The numbers are growing.  Some 13 million people have fled their homes in Ukraine since the Russian invasion. More than 5 million are still outside the country. Over 6 million people remain displaced within Ukraine.  These are ordinary people, children and adults, citizens of a European country that is a close friend and ally of both Serbia and the UK.  A few [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s war in words and numbers</title>
		<link>https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/sianmacleod/2022/06/06/russias-war-in-words-and-numbers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sian MacLeod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 12:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia's invasion of Ukraine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Defence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is happening in Ukraine can be no less shocking to people in Serbia than to people in Canada, Norway, Poland, the UK &#8211; or anywhere else including Russia, when and where the truth is known. Deliberate disinformation has been rife and multifaceted &#8211; from mundane lies (no intention of invading Ukraine) to fantasy fiction [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>History revision</title>
		<link>https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/sianmacleod/2022/05/24/history-revision/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sian MacLeod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 13:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am a diplomat not a historian. But as a diplomat you cannot escape or ignore history &#8211; and nor should you want to. It is desperately sad to see a country with a rich heritage being trapped by a re-imagined history rather than addressing present needs and future opportunities. Chatting over dinner about 15 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The multilayered world of (dis)information</title>
		<link>https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/sianmacleod/2022/04/30/the-multilayered-world-of-disinformation/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sian MacLeod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2022 05:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia's invasion of Ukraine]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Disinformation has become one of the defining words of our age. It is not a new phenomenon. But its present scale is unprecedented, helped by round the clock broadcasting and social media. There is a shorter word for it: lies. But ‘disinformation’ perhaps better conveys the sense of deliberate corrupting of the media environment with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This is What Human Tragedy Looks Like</title>
		<link>https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/sianmacleod/2022/04/19/this-is-what-human-tragedy-looks-like/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sian MacLeod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This joint article by Ambassadors Rafal Perl (Poland), Giles Norman (Canada) and Sian MacLeod (UK) first appeared in Serbian in ‘Nedeljnik’ on 14 April 2022. This week Protestant and Catholic churches around the world mark the darkest, most solemn days in the Christian year followed by celebration of Easter and hope for the future.  Next [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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