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Samuel Corum / Getty Should Oleksandra Matviychuk Share the Nobel Peace Prize With Russians?
Human-rights champions from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus will share the prize, given not to countries but to people working to change them.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty The President and the Bomb
Joe Biden warns Russia about the existential risk of using nuclear weapons.
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illustration by Vartika Sharma. Sources: Universal History Archive … Why Putin Made Peace With the Soviets’ Archenemies
Revisiting Russia’s brutal civil war
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María Jesús Contreras No One Wants a Pizzaburger
What Russian trolls can teach us about American voters
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The Atlantic We Must Reject Russia’s Nuclear Blackmail
And stop Putin before other dictators follow his lead.
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Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Putin’s Newest Annexation Is Dire for Russia Too
His baldly illegitimate claim to four Ukrainian provinces shows contempt for the global order—and his own subjects.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Putin Didn’t Think He Would Fool Anyone
The sham referendum in Ukraine was for domestic consumption.
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Contributor / Getty The Russian Clocks Are All Ticking
Putin is running out of time.
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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 Kremlin Must Be in Crisis
Putin’s erratic actions are not those of a secure leader.
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Getty; U.S. Department of State; The Atlantic Putin Is Cornered
The West faces a simple choice: reduce aid to Ukraine and deliver Russia a victory, or else finish the job it has begun.
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The Washington Post / Getty; The Atlantic The Right’s Brittney Griner Obsession
Black athletes who bridge sports and social justice have always found themselves targeted by pundits for voicing dissatisfaction with the status quo.
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Sergei Chuzavkov / AFP / Getty Why the Russian Military Brutalizes Ukraine
A narrative of resentment and betrayal
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; RUSSEIL CHRISTOPHE / … Gorbachev Never Realized What He Set in Motion
Almost nobody has ever had such a profound impact on an era, while understanding so little about it.
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Wojtek Laski / Getty Gorbachev’s Fatal Trap
He gambled on the resilience of both the Soviet system and socialism, and lost.
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Frédéric Soltan / Corbis / Getty A Murder in Russia
Why an assassination in Moscow matters to Ukraine and the West
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Laetitia Vancon / The New York Times / … The Country That Suffers Whenever Russia Schemes
Moldova’s president has high hopes. Putin has other ideas.
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Owen Gent The Rivalry That Defines America
How the U.S. dealt with Russia in Afghanistan is informing how Russia is dealing with the U.S. in Ukraine.
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Kirill Kudryavtsev / Getty To Putin, Brittney Griner Is a Pawn. To the U.S., She’s a Person.
Russia will regard any prisoner swap as a propaganda win. But the real message we can proclaim is about American values.
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David Turnley / Corbis / Getty What Putin’s Treatment of Jews Reveals About Russia
His move to kick out the agency that assists émigrés to Israel fits a pattern from Soviet times of using Russian Jews as pawns.
