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...
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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,...
Four Poems - Moscow, 1980s
Poetry / Four poems about my Moscow childhood. Published at entropy.org
The Trump Organization in the Caucasus
Audio / I talk to Adam Davidson of The New Yorker about the Trump Organization's business deals in the post-Soviet region.
Examining Trump's Batumi Deal
Audio / I tell the story of two Columbia Journalism grads who investigated Trump's business deal in Batumi, Georgia. Manuela Andreoni and...
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...
Looking at Luxury Real Estate’s Money Laundering Role
Audio / I talk to the political scientist Alexander Cooley about his book Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia....
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...
What’s the Matter with Chechnya?
Audio / I interview experts about the gay purges in Chechnya. All eyes turned to Chechnya in early April 2017, after the independent...
Russian Protests and Evolving U.S.-Russia Relations
Audio / I talk to three experts and a novelist about the public protests that erupted all over Russia in March 2017, and the evolving...
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...
Three Poems by Maximilian Voloshin
Translation / My translation of three poems by the early 20th-Century Ukrainian-born Russian poet Maximilian Voloshin. Maximilian...
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...
Free Expression in the Age of Security Threats
Interview / I talk to Dunja Mijatović, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the...
From Stanford to Spaso House: In Conversation with Michael McFaul
Interview / I talk to Michael McFaul, ambassador to Russia during the Obama Administration. In January 2009, Michael McFaul, a renowned...
How Past Informs Present: an Interview with Stephen Sestanovich
Interview / I talk to Stephen Sestanovich, ambassador-at-large for the former Soviet Union and special adviser to Secretary of State...
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