Tag: russia

  • Why Vladimir Putin Would Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine | The New Yorker

  • 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 “Our family is like a small Russia,” Ms. Druzhinina said in an interview. “Russia took in […]

  • 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 […]

  • The Storykeeper: A Conversation with Svetlana Alexievich

    Los Angeles Review of Books via Los Angeles Review of Books: 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 write […]

  • ‘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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]