Joshua Yaffa
Contributing Writer at The New Yorker
Russia, Ukraine, and much more for @NewYorker. DMs open; write for Signal. Between Two Fires now in paperback: https://t.co/iWiSMHzvG3
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5 days ago |
businessandamerica.com | Joshua Yaffa
This year, the celebrations in Moscow serve another purpose: a way for Putin to show that he is not geopolitically isolated—China’s Xi Jinping and Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are expected to attend. In recent weeks, Donald Trump has called for a thirty-day ceasefire as a step toward ending the war in Ukraine, a proposal to which the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has agreed.
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1 week ago |
newyorker.com | Joshua Yaffa
On May 9th, Vladimir Putin will oversee a parade in Moscow’s Red Square, commemorating the Soviet Union’s victory in the Second World War, an annual display of military bravado that, since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in 2022, has taken on more explicit political undertones. The country’s triumph over Nazism is presented as proof of its righteousness in the current war—and of it’s role as a global power.
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2 months ago |
newyorker.com | Joshua Yaffa
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in the winter of 2022, the rock group Bi-2 was on a nationwide tour. The group, a stalwart of the Russian music scene for more than two decades, is known for its nostalgia-drenched sing-along anthems, whose lyrics are often both rebellious and literary. At a concert in Yekaterinburg in March its two front men, Shura and Lyova, who are both in their fifties, had proclaimed “No to war!” “We thought we could affect the process,” Lyova said.
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2 months ago |
flipboard.com | Joshua Yaffa
Post-Fascism, A New Totalitarian Ideology, Now Spreading ‘Especially In Russia And The US’ – OpEdNeither Putin nor Trump is a fascist in the classical sense, and neither in fact are neo-fascists, Vladimir Pastukhov says. Moreover, the regimes …
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2 months ago |
businessandamerica.com | Joshua Yaffa
Zelensky was kicked out of the White House, and Trump said that he could only return when he agreed to submit to a U.S.-dictated peace plan—effectively a ceasefire that contains no mechanisms for Ukraine’s long-term security. “Everyone was shocked,” a political source in Kyiv told me. But, a week later, the source added, “the shock has worn off. Any remaining illusions were shattered.
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A new semester means fresh slate of events @Bard_Berlin. First up on Sep 27: a discussion of the politics of memory (or absence and denial of historical memory) in Germany and Russia, and what that means for politics and society today. Berliners, join us! https://t.co/Nf2JSd1gzg
My story in this week's @NewYorker: on the radical experiment of Marlene Engelhorn, an Austrian heiress who assembled a council of fifty strangers to give away her inheritance. https://t.co/Wuvjt1TiJe
A story we waited 491 days for. Evan is coming home. Surreal and beautiful words to write. https://t.co/LrnrSdrAkX
