Russia (Federation) Archives

Russia (Federation)

Time Wasting

by Oleg Sentsov,Translated by Kate Tsurkan, Daisy Gibbons,

From Chronicle of a Hunger Striker, which is forthcoming from Deep Vellum. Sentsov was arrested in 2014 for protesting the Russian annexation of his native Crimea, and spent five years…

Fear and Loathing in Moscow

by Emmanuel Carrère,Translated by Annie Bouchet,

From “In Moscow, Russians Face the Vertigo of War,” which was reported from Moscow and published in March by L’Obs. The names of some subjects have been changed by the…

Brave and Rational

by Yevgenia Belorusets,

From a series of diary entries from Kyiv, Ukraine, published daily on isolarii.com. february 24: I woke up early to see eight unanswered calls on my phone. It was my…

Operation Overshare

by James Harkin,

How the White House misled Ukraine

Ad Astra

by Rachel Riederer,

The coming battle over space

Putin on Your Pants

by Konstantin Borisovich Kudryavtsev, Alexei Navalny,

From a December 2020 telephone conversation between Konstantin Borisovich Kudryavtsev, an FSB agent, and Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader whom Kudryavtsev attempted to assassinate on an airplane in August…

A Novel Approach

by Christopher Beha,

This issue marks the debut of two new Harper’s Magazine columnists: Hari Kunzru will now be alternating with Thomas Chatterton Williams in the Easy Chair, while Claire Messud takes over…

The Deep State of Dementia

by Kevin Baker,

My first reaction upon seeing what was supposedly a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard removing what was alleged to be a mine from the broken hull of what we were…