Tag: russia

• TikTok was ‘just a dancing app’. Then the Ukraine war started

  March 21, 2022

  Many have called the invasion of Ukraine the world’s first “TikTok war”, and experts say it is high time for the short video platform – once known primarily for silly… more ›

• Jewellery industry accused of silence over Russian diamonds

  March 19, 2022

  In the photographs, Vladimir Putin stands with a faint smile on his face. Behind him, the enormous cavern of a mine stretches out, the earth ringed red and ochre. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/19/jewellery-industry-accused-of-silence-over-russian-diamonds more ›

• Telegram app rides high on thirst for trustworthy news

  March 13, 2022

  In the days after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his country, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, used his Telegram channel to send a defiant video message from the centre of the capital,… more ›

• Ukraine Invasion Tests the Ties That Bind Putin and Xi

  February 27, 2022

  The two autocrats have brought their countries closer together than ever. But for China, the costs of Russia’s adventurism could be high. They visited a hockey rink in Beijing and… more ›

• Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight

  August 21, 2021

  Not all battles can be won with language, arguments, conferences, or diplomacy. About the author: Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a fellow at the SNF Agora… more ›

• Constrained by the Limitations of Soviet-Era Architecture, Brodsky & Utkin Imagined Fantastical Structures on Paper

  May 10, 2021

  To be an architect with vision in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 80s, was to witness a near complete loss of Moscow’s historical architectural heritage. Restrictions on aesthetics,… more ›

• The Arms Merchant in the Sights of Russia’s Elite Assassination Squad

  April 24, 2021

  Russian spies have twice tried to poison Emilian Gebrev. Now, revelations in the Czech Republic show they also destroyed shipments of his military supplies. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/europe/arms-merchant-russia-assassination-squad.html more ›

• How Investigative Journalism Flourished in Hostile Russia

  March 5, 2021

  The Russian language has introduced a few words that in recent years have been widely used and misused in English: disinformation, kompromat, Novichok. But the one that blows my mind… more ›

• Дождь

  January 17, 2021

  «Мы летим домой». Навальный https://twitter.com/tvrain/status/1350808633144188937/photo/1 more ›

• French and Russian Influence Operations Go Head to Head Targeting Audiences in Africa

  December 22, 2020

  On December 15, Facebook announced that it had taken down three separate networks that it had discovered for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that targeted communities across Africa. One, centered on the Central African… more ›