Joshua Yaffa is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. He focuses on Russia, Ukraine, and broader geopolitical themes, delving into the complexities of truth and ambition in contemporary politics, as exemplified in his book "Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia," which won the Orwell Prize in 2021. Joshua's work has also been featured in Magzter and Foreign Affairs Magazine.
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How Russia was remade.
The Trump Administration has claimed that it's nearing a deal to end the war, but, for now, the conflict's essential impasse still holds: Moscow won't accept what Kyiv can stomach.
Alexander Molochnikov’s short film reinterprets an act of protest that called attention to the invasion of Ukraine, and led to the imprisonment of Sasha Skochilenko, a young Russian artist, in 2023.
In 1978, Václav Havel, the Czech playwright, dissident, and future President, wrote an essay, distributed clandestinely, that tells of a greengrocer
How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across Europe.
Russia’s President is profiting from rising oil prices, but he’s also facing a hard new reality: he’s no longer the lead disruptor of the postwar global order.
Joshua Yaffa The New Yorker Russia's President is profiting from rising oil prices, but he's also facing a hard new reality: he's no longer the lead disruptor of the postwar global order.
Drone attacks, internet blackouts, and a sudden downturn in the economy have led some prominent Russians to start openly questioning their President's grip on power.
Drone attacks, internet blackouts, and a sudden downturn in the economy have marked one of the worst stretches for Vladimir Putin since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Long-range drone and missile strikes on Russian soil have shifted the balance of the war in Ukraine—will they be enough to end it?
