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After this programme. hello and welcome to the bbc�*s headquarters here in central london for another edition of unspun world. this week, what's it like for a journalist to be treated like an enemy in moscow? as relations deteriorate between russia and the uk and russia and the west, and just when you think they can't get any worse, they get worse. you know, that makes it difficult. the civil war in myanmar, something the outside world seems completely unaware of. it really is a david and goliath war here, when you're seeing drones versus russian jets. so if they do win, it

And maybe even the best. nato war games of the 1970s often used to end with soviet victories. after vladimir putin's so—called special military operation in ukraine, though, russia's armed forces seem pretty inadequate. if we're looking for historical parallels, the best one is probably stalin's invasion of finland — the so—called winter war of 1939 to �*40. finns turned out to be far better tacticians than the russians, and they fought much more effectively. stalin had made the critical mistake of believing the toadies who promised him that invading finland would be a doddle. vladimir...

For mr kurti equally clear. does it really matter beyond the two men's hostility towards each other? how disturbing is that for the balkans generally? when there's an actual war going on in ukraine, you do not want a frozen conflict flaring up in the western balkans. that's a distraction that the united states and the european union simply don't need at this time. now, the presence of the nato peacekeepers in kosovo to a great extent keeps everyone honest. in fact, the commander of kfor said that if kfor hadn't been there, there might be actual conflict now. so it's doing itsjob. it's making s...

If you take a long view of russian history, it will turn around again and that this period that we're experiencing now will will be replaced by another one. there are at least 27 wars going on in the world at the moment, though none of the others has the intensity of the war in ukraine. one particularly vicious conflict, which is going on without much awareness in the outside world, is the civil war in myanmar, formerly burma, where a loose association of ethnic and other forces opposed to the military government is claiming to control approximately half of the country. the bbc world service a...

Their biggest arms dealer. what's your instinct about all this? where is this war going? it really is a david and goliath war here. when you're seeing drones versus russian jets, it's hard to see how a people's resistance can can win against those forces. but the will of the burmese people is incredibly strong. there's a real sense of unity, perhaps for the first time, between different ethnic groups. and if they really can unite and if they can use their forces well, they definitely have a chance. but they are alone. i mean, the united kingdom, the us have given support, but they're not recei...