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Pavel Durov telegram
WASHINGTON September 4, 2024
Ever since his arrest in Paris, Telegram founder Pavel Durov has become an unlikely free-speech martyr, somehow uniting both Navalny supporters and the Kremlin in their praise of him. And yet, the truth about Durov’s actions appears to be at odds with the legend.
Pavel Durov was detained by French authorities.
WASHINGTON August 27, 2024
The billionaire Telegram founder, now a cause célèbre among the Russian opposition following his arrest in France, is not quite the free speech hero he is made out to be.
Dimitri Simes house raided
WASHINGTON August 20, 2024
Dimitri Simes, the Kremlin TV host and Russian-American political analyst now living in Moscow, opens up about the mysterious F.B.I. raid on his Virginia home.
harris shadow cabinet
WASHINGTON August 20, 2024
Despite Harris’s lack of a national security platform, Democrats are entering a new phase of feverish speculation surrounding who might be tapped to create, and execute, her foreign policy agenda.


Volodymyr Zelensky
WASHINGTON August 13, 2024
The surprise Kursk offensive caught Putin and the Russians off guard, but no one, not even the Ukrainians, seems to know what happens next. I spoke with military analyst Michael Kofman about Ukraine’s likely motives, the expected retaliation from Moscow, and where things go from here.
russia prisoner swap vladimir putin
WASHINGTON August 6, 2024
While the Americans released by Russia in last week’s prisoner swap celebrated their emancipation, the Kremlin set about carefully spinning the exchange as confirmation of their captives’ guilt, while also celebrating a political coup of their own.
kamala harris
WASHINGTON July 30, 2024
Washington is racing to suss out the foreign policy agenda of Kamala Harris, whom national security types view as a “blank slate.” The selection of a new advisor to lead her campaign’s policy team may provide some clues.
kamala harris
WASHINGTON July 23, 2024
In the wake of Biden’s departure from the race, the foreign policy crowd is experiencing all the feels—jubilation, resentment, excitement, agony, and the sense that “the chessboard is empty” with Harris atop the ticket. Plus, the view from the Kremlin on the new Democratic nominee (and, for what it’s worth, J.D. Vance).


joe biden
WASHINGTON July 16, 2024
Fresh reporting on the collective private mourning of top Democrats after the tragic “events”—as they are known in Washington-speak—of the weekend. Nevertheless, some cling to hope. “He also said he would drop if he saw data saying he can’t win,” said a campaign source. “He’s about to see a lot of it.”
nato summit joe biden
WASHINGTON July 9, 2024
After the debate, Europeans are starting to come to the conclusion that Biden is done for and that a second Trump presidency is inevitable. And they insist they’re not freaking out about it. “We can’t control who wins,” a European defense official told me, “but we’ll work with what we have.”
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