Joshua Yaffa

Joshua Yaffa The New Yorker What it was like to live through the takeover of one of Russia's most influential television stations—and

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.