"We miss you and we want you back."
We call for the release of our friend and colleague and all the other reporters detained for simply doing their job.
#IStandWithEvan #JournalismIsNotACrime
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We are very grateful if you can take the time to read and share our article about the young American unjustly imprisoned by Russia on.wsj.com/3lZIyQg #IStandWithEvan #FreeEvan #JournalismIsNotACrime
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Shocked by the horrifying news of Russia's absurd espionage charges against , an excellent reporter and friend.
Evan is accredited by Russia's MFA and was simply doing his job. Journalism is not a crime. Russia should release him at once.
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I never wanted to write this. But some stories you tell or they tell you.
🙏 for the platform.
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Throughout his life, one of them dreamed of getting an Oscar, the other - to become the president and lead his nation to a better future. (Credit to )
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'That's how I approach my life. I get that exact same sinking feeling in my gut when I’m staring at my calendar and it’s not working.'
Bestselling productivity author Cal Newport talks to about coping strategies for office workers:
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"Being in a massive open-plan room with all of your co-workers makes it hard to focus. But so does being alone, tending to constant Slack notifications and email. It’s for precisely this crisis that Newport offers answers."
ft.com/content/176c10
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My dispatch from the Turkish city of Adıyaman, where the scale of the destruction — and the grief — is so huge that it’s hard to comprehend:
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Blockbuster investigation: how high-end lawyers in London and Moscow helped Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin evade western sanctions for his role running paramilitary group Wagner – and helped him construct an elaborate lie to hide it
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Huge fan of this week’s ‘Lunch with the FT’ featuring Annie Proulx by in — for various reasons.
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'There may be a point of no return. Then nobody will need your money. Now that is the scariest thing that could happen.'
and on the mysterious tale of a Russian banker in exile and the people pursuing him
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🧵“In Russia ‘the culture is just lying, lying, lying,’ Leontiev told us.
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It is difficult to know whether Leontiev or the whistleblower is lying, or whether both are telling their own versions of the truth.”
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loved this interview including:
She likens the process of writing to “embroidery or carpentry or sewing a garment”, piecing together “beginnings and endings and different parts that echo or match each other . . . To get it right takes time.”
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I had lunch with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx (The Shipping News; "Brokeback Mountain") and it was spiky, salty and delicious: ft.com/content/57ec8e
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Here's what & I have been working on for months: the story of an exiled Russian banker that led us down a path of infinite double takes. If trying to solve counterintuitive puzzles is your thing, try this ft.com/content/60f608
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It is free to read on - I hope you check it out!
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Also, huge thanks to our amazing editor & who did a HUGE amount of work on this
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The story is part-mystery, part geopolitical intrigue, part forensic investigation. It constantly surprised and I at every turn - and I hope it does the same for you.
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Over the past half-year, we've gone deep (really deep) on a story about a Russian bank and the two childhood friends running it; its takeover by the Russian central bank; and what this story tells us about Russia -- and how we in the west view the unfolding of the Putin years.
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Six months ago, & I received an email offering us an interview with a "high-profile Russian national targeted by [the] Putin regime”.
Little did we know what we were signing up for...
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I had lunch with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx (The Shipping News; "Brokeback Mountain") and it was spiky, salty and delicious:
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In early May, a PR firm contacted & offering an interview with a "high-profile Russian national targeted by [the] Putin regime"
So began a journey with many unexpected turns. enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/5aa3d3d
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“There may be a point of no return. Then nobody will need your money. Now that is the scariest thing that could happen.”
& 's brilliant, painstaking investigation into the mystery of a Russian banker who fled Putin's regime
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the 's person of the year for his "extraordinary display of leadership and fortitude" - a Churchill for the social media age. With and
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I dug into FTX's political spending during this election...SBF was a top Democrat donor this cycle, but he + Ryan Salame/FTX.US also gave plenty to Republicans as well
full story with and here: ft.com/content/428c78 (+ the interactive ver of the chart)
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“I mean, look at what Joe Manchin has done in the Senate as the one deciding vote, right? I would love for the Massie caucus to be relevant”
Sassy w , via >
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Maga money is starting to pour in to the midterms, after sitting on the sidelines for most of the year and with the story
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“These [tech] guys make a lot of money and think they’re brilliant — because they are . . . But that doesn’t transfer to politics as seamlessly I think as they hope" - on Peter Thiel's midterms gambit and the tensions with fellow Republicans
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Aaaand scene.
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Liz Truss lasted 4.1 Scaramuccis
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If you really want to understand Ron DeSantis, his personality & what motivates him , read this excellent cover story which takes a deeper look at the FL governor
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"He is known to wear earbuds to deflect social interactions. Besides his wife, he has few friends, let alone confidantes. “There are no ‘DeSantis people’ in Tallahassee...If Ron DeSantis gets to the White House, there’s going to be nobody with him"
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I've spent most of this war in the south and the east with Russian-speaking troops and Russian-speaking civilians, who want nothing to do with what Russia is offering. Also, Ukrainians overthrew their corrupt Kremlin-backed government because they wanted not to live under that.
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"The US backed a coup & the new coup government, which included some fascists, waged a war on Ukraine's Russian speaking population, & those in Crimea & elsewhere wanted to not live under that...Why are we risking a nuclear war over that?" @aaronjmate
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“Wow the air feels easier to breathe here already.”
reports among the Russians fleeing the draft over the border into Kazakhstan:
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“They kept asking me, ‘Are you a fascist? A banderovka? I told them that I was Ukrainian. They said: ‘There is no such people. We are one people.’ So, I asked them, 'if we are one people, why am I sitting here with a bag over my head, while you are beating my husband to death?'
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In case you had any doubt what this is really about, Putin hasn't even mentioned Ukraine for about 15 minutes now. This is effectively an official declaration of hostilities against the west.
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“We’re essentially seeing two waves...a wave of red voters and a wave of blue voters who are both being animated by separate issues and are both operating to a certain degree in their information and partisan bubbles.”
great piece by :
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Edward Snowden is officially a Russian citizen as of today. Exquisite timing
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Extraordinary statement from Putin this morning that breaks a two decade-long pact between the Kremlin and the Russian people:
You can get on with their lives while we're do whatever we live on the international stage.
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Today's the day! Our movie is out on Netflix!
#wirecardskandal
Let me know what you think
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