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Young Russian Musicians Struggle Under Government Scrutiny

Published January 17, 2019 in NPR Leave a comment

“We have a lot in common with people our age around the world,” said Nikolai Kostylev. “I’m more like some guy my age in Mexico than my neighbor who’s two generations older.”

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What Was Russia’s Role In 2016 U.S. Election? 2 Former KGB Officials Weigh In

Published November 11, 2017 in NPR Leave a comment

“I’m going to tell you something I’ve never told anyone before,” Gennady Gudkov, a retired KGB colonel, told me in his office in an old Moscow manor house.

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Banned From Russian TV, A Putin Critic Gets His Message Out On YouTube

Published June 1, 2017 in NPR Leave a comment

Navalny at 20:18 is part-Jon Stewart in its righteous skewering of the powers that be, but also part-Vladimir Putin in its know-it-all approach to that which ails Russia.

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Putin’s War on Young People

If Russia is ever to become a country that seeks peace with its neighbors and respects the rights of its own citizens, then such a future depends on Russia’s young people.

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About Lucian

Based in Berlin and Moscow, I reported from the former Soviet empire for 25 years for NPR, Reuters, Slate, Bloomberg, and others. My first book, Putin’s Revenge: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine, is now available from Columbia University Press.

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