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Kyodo News / Getty The Bitter Truth Behind Russia’s Looting of Ukrainian Art
Kherson’s museums became a microcosm of the grim drama of collaboration and resistance that takes place under occupation.
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Artur Widak / NurPhoto / Getty; The Atlantic The Irreversible Change in Belarus
Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya discusses how the war in neighboring Ukraine is affecting her own people’s bid for freedom.
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Getty; The Atlantic ‘I Just Wanted the Whole Thing to Be Over’
Victoria Obidina’s account of her mistreatment in the Russian prison system is just one of thousands of reports of war crimes in Ukraine.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The New Stalin Era
For the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the Kremlin today is taking the country back to the authoritarian nightmare of the past.
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Nicole Tung / The New York Times / … One Ukrainian City in the Way of Putin’s New Total War
As they rush to evacuate children, the civilians of Zaporizhzhya face a double threat of nuclear devastation.
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Getty; The Atlantic ‘An Army of Zombies Is Leading Us to Hell’
An interview with a Moscow professional who just quit Russia to escape Vladimir Putin’s military draft
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Getty; The Atlantic The Doctors Who Are Now Prisoners of War
The experience of Ukrainian medics in the notorious Olenivka POW camp suggests that Russia’s treatment of captives is certainly inhumane and probably illegal.
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The Atlantic; Getty In Ukraine, Youth Has Ended
The country’s young people have been forced to make decisions much tougher than most adults are capable of. I feel some small sense of common cause.
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Courtesy of Ural Biennial Vladimir Putin’s Waning Tolerance for Art
A recent art exhibition in Russia made no mention of the current state of the country—saying more about Putin’s rule than any one exhibit could.
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Leni Kovaleva / Getty The People of the Soil Have Won
Vladimir Putin has nothing to offer Joe Biden because his balancing act between Westernizers and more conservative forces is over.
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Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Russia’s Twin Nostalgias
Vladimir Putin has a fondness for the Soviet era. So do many Russians—but often not for the same reasons.
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Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters A Russian Journalist’s Arrest Counters the Image of Putin the Puppet Master
Abroad, Putin is perceived as the master orchestrator of all of Russia’s actions. But his hold on the state’s security services is more limited.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Trump-Putin Relationship, as Dictated by the Kremlin
Why does the White House cede control of the narrative to the Russians?
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Mikhail Voskresenskiy / Reuters What to Do When the Russian Government Wants to Blackmail You
Russian officials have a long history of using compromising material, or kompromat, as a weapon against political opponents.
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Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Getty Putin’s Crackdown on Dissent Is Working
A new law criminalizing “disrespect” for Russian society and institutions might mark the end of the country’s few remaining legal forms of protests.
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Tatyana Makeyeva / AP A Theatrical Moscow Trial Draws the Ire of Russia's Cultural Elite
Embezzlement charges against a leading Russian theater director come amidst a growing cultural crackdown that mirrors the country’s Soviet past.
