The Last Handoff
It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.
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It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.
Mattathias Schwartz New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 30min Permalink
Did an affair with a Russian agent push Overstock’s Patrick Byrne too far?
Sheelah Kolhatkar The New Yorker Dec 2020 30min Permalink
The pandemic comes to Star City, the secretive home of Russia’s space program.
Polina Ivanova Reuters Nov 2020 20min Permalink
Is Russia behind a secret weapon that’s targeted dozens of American diplomats and spies?
Julia Ioffe GQ Oct 2020 20min Permalink
The first interview with a key witness in Trump’s impeachment trial.
Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic Sep 2020 Permalink
Inside Trump’s battles with U.S. intelligence agencies.
Robert Draper The New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 30min Permalink
In 1936, Karp Lykov whisked his family into the Siberian wilderness to escape Bolshevik persecution. They remained there, alone, until discovered by a helicopter crew in 1978.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Jan 2013 15min Permalink
How the Lyubov Orlova became the infamous “cannibal-rat ghost ship.”
Randi Beers CBC News Nov 2019 20min Permalink
Patrick Bryne’s tenure at Overstock.com was already on the rocks, due to an all in bet on blockchain technology, before he admitted that he had an affair with the Russian operative Maria Butina.
Lauren Debter Forbes Aug 2019 Permalink
An interesting side effect of reading the report is to feel that anyone who claims to have understood its arguments, purposes, and consequences within twenty-four or forty-eight hours of encountering it is likely untrustworthy.
Mark Greif n+1 Jul 2019 Permalink
In 2015, my friend and I went to Disney World. Three years later, she went on a solo trip to prison.
Elena Nicolaou Refinery29 Feb 2019 15min Permalink
"It is one thing for you to get a correct image, and it is another thing for me to spoil my life."
Sarah A. Topol The New York Times Magazine Feb 2019 30min Permalink
The parallel lives of a KGB defector and his CIA handler.
Serge F. Kovaleski Washington Post Jan 2006 35min Permalink
The excerpts from a diary of an anonymous Russian special-forces officer who served twenty tours of duty in Chechnya during the Second Chechen War (1999-2009).
Anonymous The Sunday Times Oct 2010 15min Permalink
The birthing of a conspiracy theory that the record holder for oldest person, Jeanne Calment, was actually her daughter Yvonne, who had “stolen her deceased mother’s identity to avoid paying inheritance taxes,”
Eli Rosenberg The Washington Post Jan 2019 Permalink
Was Dr. Alexander Mishkin, Hero of Russia, responsible for the Skripal poisoning?
Bellingcat Investigation Team Bellingcat Oct 2018 20min Permalink
An analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes the case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Sep 2018 30min Permalink
A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.
Ian Parker New Yorker Aug 2018 50min Permalink
“It was a clusterfuck of clusterfucks.”
Andy Greenberg Wired Aug 2018 25min Permalink
The hit on Sergei Skripal.
Tom Lamont GQ Aug 2018 Permalink
Does anyone care?
Ruby Cramer, Kevin Collier Buzzfeed Mar 2018 10min Permalink
In 2014, Russell Bonner Bentley was a middle-aged arborist living in Austin. Now he’s a local celebrity in a war-torn region of Ukraine—and a foot soldier in Russia’s information war.
Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Mar 2018 Permalink
Russians will be going to the polls on March 18, but it is already clear who will emerge victorious. Vladimir Putin has been at the helm for almost 20 years – both dramatically changing his country and subjugating it at the same time.
Christian Esch Der Spiegel Mar 2018 20min Permalink
How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2018 1h Permalink
To the KGB and back.
Jason Fagone Washingtonian Feb 2018 20min Permalink