Selected Clips

Reporting

Ukraine

The Ukrainian Anarchist Pacifist Writer Putin Drove to Take Up Arms (The New Republic)

The Meanings of Ukraine’s Kursk Offensive (Internationale Politik Quarterly)

‘A Missile Cannot Stop Us:’ In a Ukrainian City, Life and Work Go On After Russian Strikes (Public Sphere)

​​​​​​Inside the Basement Where Russians Held Over 300 Ukrainians (Public Sphere)

‘We Don’t Want to Lose Our Second Motherland:’ Mustafa Nayyem fights to rebuild Ukraine (Foreign Policy)

Terror at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (Public Sphere)

How the War Is Giving Same-Sex Marriage Rights a Push in Ukraine (The New Republic)

Victoria Amelina: Remembering a Ukrainian Writer Killed by a Russian Missile (Public Sphere)

This Ukrainian Writer Doesn’t Need to Imagine Russian Torture. He Lived It. (The New Republic)

Poland

After eight years of propaganda, can Polish journalists regain public trust? (Columbia Journalism Review)

This Sunday’s Elections Could Make Poland the New Hungary (The New Republic)

A “Moment of Truth”: The Ukrainians Who Are Going Back to Fight (The New Republic)

At the Poland-Ukraine Border: A 60-Mile Train Trip That Can Take 26 Hours (The New Republic)

Georgia

Georgia’s Ruling Party Tries Winning With the Kremlin’s Ukraine Rhetoric (Internationale Politik Quarterly)

Georgia’s Democracy is on the Brink (Public Sphere)

Lithuania

Building Europe’s Drone Wall (Internationale Politik Quarterly)

Germany

“The Longest Month of My Life”: The Searing Grief of Ukrainian Refugees (The New Republic)

Russia

Russia’s Attack on LGBTQ Existence (Public Sphere)

How Climate Change Will Reshape Russia (The Parliament Magazine)

Alexei Navalny, Putin’s Biggest Opponent, Takes On Corruption In The Sochi Olympics (HuffPost)

Thousands Gather At Unsanctioned Meeting Against Putin (HuffPost)

Analysis

Under Pressure from Trump and Xi, Europeans Want a Stronger EU (Internationale Politik Quarterly)

Alexei Navalny was Vladimir Putin’s Worst Nightmare (The New Republic)

What Europe Thinks … About the Global South and Vice Versa (Internationale Politik Quarterly)

Russia is Unrecognizable One Year After Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine (Public Sphere)

Culture

Watching Netflix’s Latest True-Crime Series About Hitler’s Crimes Against Democracy (Public Sphere)

Author and academic Lea Ypi comes of age in communist Albania (The Parliament Magazine)

Russia Peddles a Myth of Past Glory — No Wonder it Hates “Chernobyl” (Washington Post Opinions)

You might be binge-watching Russian propaganda on Netflix (Washington Post Opinions)

Interviews

​​Q&A: Two Exiled Russian Journalists Explain How Their Former Friends Ended Up Working for the Kremlin (Public Sphere)

Q&A: A Historian Explains Hitler’s Rise to Power — and the Parallels to Trump (Public Sphere)

“The Russians Would Not Have Gone Into That Meeting Empty-Handed” — Bill Browder on The Trump Tower Meeting and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. (Yale Journal of International Affairs)