A new book by the exiled Russian journalists Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov tells the story of lost friendships and a broken generation.

The Erdoğan government gives extraordinary freedoms to Putin’s spooks and influence peddlers.

The Russian opposition has faced a barrage of criticism; they are, it is said, a loose and uncoordinated collection of disparate groups, acting on their own, and unable to unite behind a common cause. But why should they?

On Moscow’s Ruthless Campaign Against Russians Who Fight for Ukraine: our article in Foreign Affairs.

A documentary from the Navalny Foundation has caused anger and recrimination among the leading lights of the post-Soviet state.

In the midwinter of Russia’s full-scale war on its western neighbor, the regime looks unassailable. But hope survives.

The Kremlin is intensifying attacks on anti-war Russian musicians and artists living abroad.

How the Ukraine War Has Changed the Game for the Kremlin’s Intelligence Operatives—and Their Western Rivals. Our article in Foreign Affairs.

Two years it felt risky to report on Russian oligarchs. Now it seems the aim is to attack Western publishers and media to make them think twice before accepting Russian journalists’ reporting.

The Kremlin’s reliance on migrants is creating significant strains. At some point, these are likely to result in serious consequences.

The Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin’s HiddenInfluence Campaign in the West.

In the Kremlin food chain, assassins are more valuable than spies, while both are expected to persecute émigrés.

Below is the foreword to the recently released paperback edition.

Four months after the war started, Russia has admitted it lacks IT specialists. But its proposed solution might only benefit the country’s neighbors.

The Kremlin has done everything possible to seal off Russian citizens from independent news media, and it’s failing.

Russians are fleeing their country in droves. Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan; Estonia, Latvia, Montenegro. In the first two weeks of the war alone, Georgia took in 25,000 Russians, and Armenia was receiving some 6,000 Russians per day. By the end of March, 60,000 Russians had gone to Kazakhstan.

Putin’s war — and the unprecedented tidal wave of global sanctions it has provoked — is having a particular impact on those young, technologically oriented Russians who represent the future of the country’s economy.