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The Ukraine Crisis: a selection of articles from The New Yorker

Sunday Reading: The Ukraine Crisis

The New Yorker,  Sunday, Feb 6, 2022 

Ukrainian Military Air Force University cadets light candles during a monthly memorial service for soldiers who were...
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Vladimir Putin is of the belief that Russia is the victim of a triumphal West that exploited its advantages following the end of the Cold War. He is making his arguments with aggression—and with threats of even more aggression. By invading and occupying Crimea, in 2014, and now by stationing more than a hundred thousand troops on the Ukrainian border, he is intimidating Ukraine and trying to reassert Russian power in Europe. It’s entirely unclear what will happen in the coming weeks. One can hope that diplomacy will prevail, but there’s certainly no guarantee.

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In the midst of these tensions, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces on Ukraine and the changing nature of its relationship with Russia. In a profile of the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, from 2019, Joshua Yaffa, who is based in Moscow, writes about the rise of the unlikely politician, a former comedian who, as his country’s leader, found himself at the center of Donald Trump’s first impeachment and now must grapple with a geopolitical crisis. In “The Orange and the Blue,” from 2010, Keith Gessen reports on the period after an earlier Ukrainian drive for independence. In “The Novel That Predicts Russia’s Invasion of Crimea,” Michael Idov explores a satirical tale, published more than forty years ago, by Vassily Aksyonov. In “How Putin Plays with the Law,” Masha Lipman, a Russian political analyst, examines Putin’s annexation of Crimea. Finally, Masha Gessen reports from Kyiv, last week, as ordinary people in the Ukrainian capital ruefully discuss preparing for something that cannot be prepared for: potential invasion.

David Remnick


Zelensky sitting at large white table.
Volodymyr Zelensky swept to power pledging to end corruption. Then the White House called.
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Blue protest flags in the wind
After the revolution, a politics of disenchantment.
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A black ship in the port of Sevastopol
Vassily Aksyonov’s “The Island of Crimea” imagines an alternative history that once again seems frighteningly plausible.
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Putin in front of a cartoon heart
When Vladimir Putin speaks about the annexation of Crimea, he does so in terms of the rule of law.
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An instructor discusses basic tactics during an introductory level military and first aid training session for civilians by the Azov regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine at their base in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022.
As the possibility of further war with Russia looms, people in Ukraine’s capital make plans to fight or flee.
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