I’m currently starting the English-language books department for Meduza, Russia’s premier newspaper-in-exile, and before that I was a news editor for Meduza’s English edition.

Here’s some original reporting I’ve done for Meduza:

We didn’t start the fire After Kazakhstan’s deadliest wildfires in years, locals blame corruption — but not climate change

‘Everybody turned their backs on us’ An ongoing crisis at TV Rain sparked intense debate about Russian independent media, its allegiances, and its responsibilities

Here’s some news coverage by me that’s gotten a lot of clicks:

Was Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer jet shot down? Marks on the plane’s exterior suggest it was hit by military air defenses. Meduza considers the evidence.

Life after ‘undesirability’ Now that Meduza has been outlawed, these are the risks involved in reading and sharing our work from inside Russia

What we know about the bridge The facts, and the theories, about the explosion on the Crimean Bridge

Photos of the Russians who managed to flee conscription Chaos on the Russia-Georgia border

And here’s a selection of translations I’m proud of:

Generation P What we know about the Russians who came of age under Vladimir Putin

Panicking for Putin Terrorism has returned to Russia, and the Putin administration may not be too upset about it

The Collective West What is Putin really talking about when he rails against the West?

A guidebook to Russian wartime oligarchs How Russia’s richest businessmen profit from the war in Ukraine

‘I pulled the trigger on the war’ In 2014, Igor Strelkov orchestrated the downing of a passenger jet over Ukraine. Today, he was arrested for criticizing Putin on social media

‘The task is simple: get 80 percent’ How Putin’s administration plans to win his next ‘landslide election victory’

Staving off apocalypse, Putin-style Meduza’s Ideas editor reflects on why the Russian authorities peddle the notion that the future is evil

A subservient nation? Russia seems prone to authoritarian rulers. Meduza unpacks one theory about why.

Turbopatriots and regional governors Who loves the letter Z and why?

‘Just call me Masha’ The International Criminal Court issued warrants for the arrest of Putin and one of his appointees, Maria Lvova-Belova. She’s clearly no ordinary mom of 22.

‘Russia ends nowhere,’ they say Sociologist Grigory Yudin discusses a year of war and what comes next

Who decided on the boundaries of the ‘Russian World’? A brief history of Donbas separatism

‘We can do it again’ The invention and reinvention of an ‘antifascist-fascist’ slogan

‘Giving Europe the chance to come to its senses’ Meduza got access to a Kremlin handbook on how propagandists should sum up 2022

Charged with incitement to genocide A Rwandan propagandist goes on trial in The Hague – do his Russian ‘colleagues’ await a similar fate?

From ‘protecting children’ to ‘discrediting the army’ A brief history of 10 years of Russian Internet censorship

‘They’re mostly after loans’ Tuvans, trying to scramble out of poverty, are dying in a foreign war

Other writing and translation:

A Story About How Stories Are Composed by Boris Pilnyak, trans. from the Russian, Sublunary Editions

Competing empires have long seen Afghanistan as a ‘buffer zone,’ leading to failed wars Washington Post

Life to the End by Andrei Platonov, trans. from the Russian, Black Sun Lit

Reading Wasted, Hypocrite Reader