De Blasio's Freight NYC Plan Spurs Optimism, Concerns
Article/ I report on the pros and cons of a plan intended to modernize New York City's freight distribution system.
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Cold Wars and the Academy
Article / I discuss the oral history project for the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. The Russian Institute (now the Harriman...
Living Without Fear: Elena Kostyuchenko in Profile
Article / I profile Elena Kostyuchenko, an investigative journalist at the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War
Interview / I talk to the journalist Thomas de Waal about his account of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. In 1988 the unthinkable...
A Revolution! Depicting Gorbachev
Article / I profile the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer William Taubman. One day in November 1985, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev,...
Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus
Interview / I talk to the journalist Thomas de Waal about his book on the first Chechen war. The book, coauthored with de Waal’s former...
The Politics of Pride in Brighton Beach
Article / I report on LGBTQ asylum seekers from Russia, and the first-ever pride parade on Brighton Beach. Artem Nevinchanyi is a...
Out of the Iron Closet
Article / I report the story of a gay Russian man seeking asylum in the U.S. in the wake of the 2013 antigay propaganda law. March, 2015...
They Hate Putin. They Love Trump. And they Live in Brooklyn.
Article / I report on Soviet-born immigrants in Brooklyn who support Trump but hate the man with whom he’s increasingly linked: Vladimir...
Without a Country: The Changing Face of Human Rights
Article / I profile the Russian academic and activist Dmitry Dubrovsky. It’s an unseasonably warm day in mid-November, one week after the...
A Different Country: Promoting Human Rights in the Wake of Soviet Collapse
Article / I profile Rachel Denber, Deputy Director of the Europe and Central Asia Division at Human Rights Watch. In July 1991, a month...
Forgotten Art: Christopher Herwig and the World's Largest Collection of Soviet Bus Stop Photographs
Article / I detail photographer Christopher Herwig's hunt for Soviet bus stops. The former Soviet Union is remembered as a bastion of...
How Yelena Goltmsan Ended Up on the Front Lines in the Battle To Boycott the Olympics
Article / I profile the founder and co-president of RUSA LGBT, the Russian-speaking American LGBT Association. A warm, motherly...
What Ever Happened to the Smashing Pumpkins?
Article / I write about the lost magic of a onetime supergroup. On a warm Monday evening late last year, a crowd of late 20- and early...
Moscow, November 1982
Article / I recount the story of my birth. I was born during the dry Moscow November of 1982, three days after Leonid Brezhnev (ruler of...
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