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Ukraine

Erik Prince's $10 Billion Plan to Make Weapons and Create a Private Army in Ukraine

...Prince hoped to hire Ukraine’s combat veterans into a private military company. Prince also wanted a big piece of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, including factories that make engines for fighter jets and helicopters."

Simon Shuster Time Jul 2021 Permalink

Sports

The Plot to Kill the Olympics

Can the International Swimming League take on the IOC and Vladimir Putin?

Alex Perry Outside Apr 2021 50min Permalink

Business World

Dirty Dollars

Accused money launderers left a path of bankrupt factories, shuttered buildings, and hundreds of steelworkers out of jobs.

Michael Sallah Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Apr 2021 30min Permalink

World

Ihor Kolomoisky’s Untold American Legacy

With Deutsche Bank’s help, an oligarch’s buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland.

Michael Sallah, Tanya Kozyreva International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Sep 2020 40min Permalink

Media

Death of a Freelancer

On the death of a young reporter named Christopher Allen and the state of conflict journalism.

Charlotte Alfred Huffington Post Dec 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

It Looked Like Another Kremlin Assassination. Was It?

"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

Tech

The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History

“It was a clusterfuck of clusterfucks.”

Andy Greenberg Wired Aug 2018 25min Permalink

World Media

War of Words

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

Crime World

The Killers of Kiev

If you are an enemy of Putin, there’s one city where intrigue and assassins are bound to follow you.

Joshua Hammer GQ Mar 2018 Permalink

Politics

The Patriot and the Correspondent

A pro-Ukraine activist goes silent in separatist-held Donetsk. A foreign correspondent goes looking for him.

Mark MacKinnon The Globe and Mail May 2016 30min Permalink

Politics

If You Don't Think Paul Manafort Can Get Trump Elected, You Don't Know Paul Manafort

Trump’s key adviser is a lobbyist known for reinventing tyrants.

Franklin Foer Slate May 2016 20min Permalink

Crime World

The Cops That Would Save a Country

Creating a new, clean police force in the Ukraine.

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Previously: Masha Gessen on the Longform Podcast

Masha Gessen Foreign Policy Sep 2015 25min Permalink

World

Inside the Kremlin’s Hall of Mirrors

Fake news stories. Doctored photographs. Staged TV clips. Armies of paid trolls.

Peter Pomerantsev The Guardian Apr 2015 20min Permalink

Crime World

The Search for Petr Khokhlov

A Russian soldier vanishes in Ukraine.

Joshua Yaffa New York Times Magazine Jan 2015 35min Permalink

World

Why Not Kill Them All?

A dispatch from Donetsk.

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Previously: Keith Gessen on the Longform Podcast.

Keith Gessen London Review of Books Sep 2014 25min Permalink

World

"Then I Saw Them Everywhere. Children’s Belongings Were Everywhere.”

How the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 rippled around the world, from the battlefield of Ukraine to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to the White House.

Marc Fisher, Michael Birnbaum, Annie Gowen, Todd C. Frankel, Karen DeYoung, Karoun Demirjian, A. Odysseus Patrick Washington Post Jul 2014 20min Permalink

Interview: I Was A Separatist Fighter In Ukraine

A conversation with one of Russia’s “little green men”: a 24-year-old recruited to fight in Eastern Ukraine.

Mumin Shakirov Radio Free Europe Jul 2014 15min Permalink

"This Is Not a Barbie Doll. This Is an Actual Human Being."

A profile of Valeria Lukyanova, otherwise known as the “Human Barbie.”

Michael Idov GQ Apr 2014 10min Permalink

Politics World

Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine

On the dueling propagandists of Kiev and Moscow.

Timothy Snyder New York Review of Books Feb 2014 10min Permalink