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Voices of Ukraine Trailer
Audio / A new podcast about members of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University community whose lives have been upended by Russia's...


Researching Climate Change in the Russian Arctic: Can the West Turn the Kremlin Green?
Audio / An interview with Kimberly Marten about her research on climate change in the Russian Arctic.


Transnational Repression
Audio / An interview Freedom House researchers Nate Schenkkan and Isabel Linzer about their report on transnational repression. Photo by...


Researching Kleptocracy in Eurasia
Audio / An interview with anti-corruption investigator Thomas Mayne about kleptocracy and what it means for democracies all over the world.


Authoritarianism and Dissent in Post-Soviet States
Audio / An interview with Alexis Lerner about her scholarship on authoritarianism and dissent in Russia, particularly in the context of...


Navalny, Transparency, and Political Repression in Russia
Audio / An interview with Navalny's former colleague and friend Matthew Murray—a corruption and rule of law expert. Listen at Eurasianet....


Trump Years Were Terrifying For Gay Asylum Seeker
Audio / An Azerbaijani gay man awaits asylum as the Trump Administration attempts to dismantle the asylum system. Listen on NPR.


All About Acceptance
Audio / The story of Liam, a young gay man from Azerbaijan seeking U.S. asylum while the Trump administration attempts to dismantle the...


The Couple
Audio / A personal narrative about the passage of time. Listen at TheInterrupted.Life. Edited by Daniel Alarcón and Heba Elorbany.


The Photograph
Audio / A Russian LGBTQI activist loses everything. Listen at TheInterrupted.Life. Edited by Daniel Alarcón and Heba Elorbany.


The Hang Up
Audio / Behind the viral moment that defined the 2020 Iowa Caucuses. Listen at TheInterrupted.Life. Ed. by Daniel Alarcón and Heba Elorbany.


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...
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