About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin
"The West's obsession with Vladimir Putin's KGB past often misses the biographical detail that can be captured by a single word: dvor. Puck journalist Julia Ioffe introduces Westerners to that universe and explains why it’s critical to understanding the Russian president and what he might do next in the war against Ukraine. "
Experts include David Remnick, Fiona Hill, Mikhail Zygar, Andrew Ryvkin, Nina Khruscheva, Andrew Weiss, Catherine Belton, and Yevgenia Albats.
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Rolling Stone: The end of Russia's peaceful opposition
Podcast: Putin is forcing the Russian musicians to support the war in Ukraine
Air Mail: Vladimir Putin is resurrecting a Soviet-era, Eurovision-like competition—and crushing musicians’ dissent
Air Mail: Russian archaeologists are looting Ukrainian museums
Air Mail: Anti-Semitic mobs in Russia viciously attacked Israelis arriving from Tel Aviv
Podcast: How did a once glamorous restaurateur become Putin’s most powerful, feared, and brutal military commander?
Air Mail: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin’s chef turned mercenary, is a gaudy egomaniac with a message: Make Russia (and me) Great Again
Podcast: How, one year into the Ukraine war, Vladimir Putin—and many of the richest Russians—are avoiding sanctions
Air Mail: Putin’s work-around for sanctions
Air Mail: The arrest of a socialite known to some as “Moscow’s Truman Capotski”—and the flight of Putin’s own goddaughter—signals a purge of the Kremlin-coddled plutocracy
Podcast: How Putin hopes to swap American basketball star Brittney Griner for a notorious Russian arms dealer
Air Mail: Here’s why Putin thinks basketball superstar Brittney Griner is a fair trade for ex-K.G.B. arms dealer Viktor Bout
Air Mail: The Kremlin is both increasingly anti-Semitic and intent on staunching the brain drain to Israel and the West
Air Mail: Vladimir Putin is facing the first serious challenge to his leadership, but it’s not coming from the direction you’d expect
Air Mail: Putin’s absolute rule is challenged by a noisy majority of Russian, woke-hating anti-vaxxers
Air Mail: Putin’s allies weaponize wokeness to cancel the leader of the opposition, Alexei Navalny
Air Mail: Now that Alexei Navalny is headed for prison, his wife, Yulia, is the new face of the anti-Putin opposition
Air Mail: Russians have all the coronavirus vaccine they need, but nobody wants to take it
Air Mail: Why Russia is fighting the coronavirus like it’s 1943
BuzzFeed: The Russian president wants more than anything for his country to be seen as an equal of the United States.
The New Republic: Vladimir Putin's New Axis of Evil: Liberal Russians, Ukrainian 'Fascists,' and America
The Village Voice: The Rumor of a Putin-Trump Political Axis Is the Laziest Kind of Slash Fiction
The Guardian: Russia wants to stick it to the US. Snowden is just the guy they need
The Guardian: Russia may be an economic powerhouse, but it's no China
The Guardian: Russia's Occupy movement is not up to the task