Tag: russia
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Tucker Carlson Promised an Unedited Putin. The Result Was Boring | The New Yorker
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Tucker Carlson Promised an Unedited Putin. The Result Was Boring In an interview that lasted more than two hours, the Russian President aired well-trod grievances and gave a lecture full of spurious history meant to justify his war in Ukraine. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/tucker-carlson-promised-an-unedited-putin-the-result-was-boring Carlson didn’t interrupt or challenge Putin on the many—too many…
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A Russian Journalist’s Pained Love for Her Country | The New Yorker
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A Russian Journalist’s Pained Love for Her Country In a new book, Elena Kostyuchenko attempts to work through how she missed—or, rather, failed to adequately react to—Russia’s descent into fascism. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/persons-of-interest/a-russian-journalists-pained-love-for-her-country The paper for which Kostyuchenko most dreamed of working was Novaya Gazeta, where Anna Politkovskaya, a fearless and revered reporter,…
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Inside the Wagner Group’s Armed Uprising | The New Yorker
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Inside the Wagner Group’s Armed Uprising How Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private military company went from fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine to staging a mutiny at home. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/07/inside-the-wagner-uprising (Prigozhin did not respond to a request for comment.)
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PMC Ryodan: The Strange Story of Anime Teens, their Sworn Enemies and the Kremlin – bellingcat
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PMC Ryodan: The Strange Story of Anime Teens, their Sworn Enemies and the Kremlin – bellingcat Across Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, men in tracksuits are attacking teenage anime fans — so the police are rounding them up. via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/03/03/ryodan-anime-teens-kremlin-russia-ukraine/ PMC Ryodan is not a transnational terrorist operation, but rather a cheekily-named and loosely-organised group of…
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How the War in Ukraine Ends | The New Yorker
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How the War in Ukraine Ends An eminent historian envisions a settlement among Russia, Ukraine, and the West. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/how-the-war-in-ukraine-ends Russia is much bigger; it has many more people. Also, the Russian leadership doesn’t really care about its people. If the Russian leadership throws twenty thousand untrained recruits into the meat grinder…
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Why Vladimir Putin Would Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine | The New Yorker
Why Vladimir Putin Would Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine The more the Kremlin has signalled its readiness to drop a nuclear bomb, the more the rest of the world has sought a reason to believe that it will not. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-vladimir-putin-would-use-nuclear-weapons-in-ukraine Even some of my smart colleagues had Russian propaganda playing on…
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Using Adoptions, Russia Turns Ukrainian Children Into Spoils of War – The New York Times
Using Adoptions, Russia Turns Ukrainian Children Into Spoils of War Thousands of Ukrainian children have been transferred to Russia. “I didn’t want to go,” one girl told The New York Times from a foster home near Moscow. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/world/europe/ukraine-children-russia-adoptions.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=World%20News “Our family is like a small Russia,” Ms. Druzhinina said in an interview. “Russia took in…
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How Russian Action Movies Are Selling War – The New York Times
How Russian Action Movies Are Selling War For an American, it can be easy to forget how much ideology is packed into the genre — until you watch a film from elsewhere, and see their cartoonish heroes and villains. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/magazine/russian-action-movies.html Another is that “Granit” was just one artifact in a whole trove of content…
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The Storykeeper: A Conversation with Svetlana Alexievich
Los Angeles Review of Books via Los Angeles Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-storykeeper-a-conversation-with-svetlana-alexievich/ I think that war is a measure of human horror. It is the biggest kind of horror that humanity can experience. For example, what’s happening in Ukraine today is an incredible force working upon us. In the first months when I started to…
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‘Putin Is a Fool’: Intercepted Calls Reveal Russian Army in Disarray – The New York Times
‘Putin Is a Fool’: Intercepted Calls Reveal Russian Army in Disarray In phone calls to friends and relatives at home, Russian soldiers gave damning insider accounts of battlefield failures and civilian executions, excoriating their leaders just weeks into the campaign to take Kyiv. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/28/world/europe/russian-soldiers-phone-calls-ukraine.html Russian soldiers made thousands of calls from the battlefield in…
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Putin’s Escalation in Ukraine Is a Losing Strategy | The New Yorker
Putin’s Escalation in Ukraine Is a Losing Strategy The push to claim new territory and mobilize more troops is unlikely to reverse Russia’s losses on the battlefield—but it could move the war into its most dangerous phase yet. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/putins-escalation-in-ukraine-is-a-losing-strategy We are fighting alone, whereas Ukraine has many allies. And, as the…
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Inside Russia’s Vast Surveillance State: ‘They Are Watching’ – The New York Times
‘They Are Watching’: Inside Russia’s Vast Surveillance State A cache of nearly 160,000 files from Russia’s powerful internet regulator provides a rare glimpse inside Vladimir V. Putin’s digital crackdown. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/22/technology/russia-putin-surveillance-spying.html Unlike more technologically savvy counterparts in China, where internet surveillance is more automated, much of the work of Russian censors is done manually, the…
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Getting Brittney Griner Home | The New Yorker
Getting Brittney Griner Home The attention commanded by the W.N.B.A. star, detained by Russia on a minor drug charge, could improve things for other Americans wrongfully detained around the world. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/getting-brittney-griner-home Brittney Yevette Griner grew up in Houston, Texas, the daughter of a homemaker and a cop. It was a fairly…
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The Mysterious Murder of Darya Dugina | The New Yorker
The Mysterious Murder of Darya Dugina Whoever killed Dugina likely meant to kill her more famous father, but that reveals little about the motives and identities of the perpetrators. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-mysterious-murder-of-darya-dugina At one point during the service, Leonid Slutsky, who leads the (misnamed) Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, called out, “One country,…
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In Russians’ New Feed, a War Over Western Plans to Subjugate Them – The New York Times
What Russians See in the News: A War Over Western Plans to Subjugate Them In the Kremlin-controlled news media, the war is not about Ukraine, but about a long history of enemies trying to keep Russia down. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/world/europe/russian-media-ukraine-war.html “Not everyone is rich enough to escape to Europe and to eat pain au chocolat in…
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Opinion | No One Will Get Rid of Vladimir Putin – The New York Times
Opinion | Who Will Get Rid of Putin? The Answer Is Grim. Terror is always more persuasive than anything else. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/opinion/russia-putin-corruption.html What is called corruption in Russia would be more correctly called a system of incitement and blackmail. If you are loyal and if the president is pleased with you, you have the right…
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What Hundreds of Photos of Weapons Reveal About Russia’s Brutal War Strategy – The New York Times
What Hundreds of Photos of Weapons Reveal About Russia’s Brutal War Strategy A New York Times analysis of visual evidence from Ukraine showed widespread use by Russia of cluster weapons banned under certain international treaties. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/19/world/europe/ukraine-munitions-war-crimes.html The Times examined more than 1,000 pictures taken by its own photojournalists and wire-service photographers working on the…
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How Russia’s Wagner Group Is Expanding in Africa – The New York Times
Putin’s Shadow Soldiers: How the Wagner Group Is Expanding in Africa Best known for its mercenaries, the Wagner Group also mines diamonds, spreads disinformation and props up autocrats in an effort to grow Russia’s footprint. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/world/africa/wagner-group-africa.html But Wagner is far more than a simple guns-for-gold scheme. Operating through a sprawling web of shell companies,…
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Putin Ally Mines Gold and Plays Favorites in Sudan – The New York Times
‘From Russia With Love’: A Putin Ally Mines Gold and Plays Favorites in Sudan Backed by the Kremlin, the shadowy network known as the Wagner Group is getting rich in Sudan while helping the military to crush a democracy movement. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/world/africa/wagner-russia-sudan-gold-putin.html But Wagner is far more than a war machine in Africa, and a…
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Putin’s Pivot to a “Really Big War” in Ukraine | The New Yorker
Putin’s Pivot to a “Really Big War” in Ukraine As his invasion enters its fourth month, the Russian leader is preparing for the long haul. Meanwhile, the military is chattering about its losses, and putting out calls for supplies on Telegram. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/putins-pivot-to-a-really-big-war-in-ukraine Yes. Unfortunately, now they accept it. When we first…