Ihor Kolomoisky’s Untold American Legacy
With Deutsche Bank’s help, an oligarch’s buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland.
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With Deutsche Bank’s help, an oligarch’s buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland.
On the death of a young reporter named Christopher Allen and the state of conflict journalism.
Charlotte Alfred Huffington Post Dec 2019 25min 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
“It was a clusterfuck of clusterfucks.”
Andy Greenberg Wired Aug 2018 25min 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
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
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
Trump’s key adviser is a lobbyist known for reinventing tyrants.
Franklin Foer Slate May 2016 20min Permalink
Creating a new, clean police force in the Ukraine.
Masha Gessen Foreign Policy Sep 2015 25min Permalink
Fake news stories. Doctored photographs. Staged TV clips. Armies of paid trolls.
Peter Pomerantsev The Guardian Apr 2015 20min Permalink
A Russian soldier vanishes in Ukraine.
Joshua Yaffa New York Times Magazine Jan 2015 35min Permalink
A dispatch from Donetsk.
Keith Gessen London Review of Books Sep 2014 25min Permalink
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.
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
A profile of Valeria Lukyanova, otherwise known as the “Human Barbie.”
Michael Idov GQ Apr 2014 10min Permalink
On the dueling propagandists of Kiev and Moscow.
Timothy Snyder New York Review of Books Feb 2014 10min Permalink