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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Keith Gessen |Andrew McGregor |Tony Onuchukwu |Hattie Moir |Nicola Alexandrou |Zoe Hitch
We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2022: To understand the tragedy of this war, it is worth going back beyond the last few weeks and months, and even beyond Vladimir Putin. By Keith Gessen. Read by Andrew McGregor
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
rsn.org | Keith Gessen
A group of sociologists found that few Russians were steadfast supporters of the war. Most had something more complicated to say. In the summer and fall of 2023, three researchers from a small Russian collective called the Public Sociology Laboratory, or P.S. Lab, travelled to three different regions across Russia, to find out what people thought about the war in Ukraine.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
newyorker.com | Keith Gessen
In the summer and fall of 2023, three researchers from a small Russian collective called the Public Sociology Laboratory, or P.S. Lab, travelled to three different regions across Russia, to find out what people thought about the war in Ukraine.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
wired.jp | Keith Gessen
アイルランド生まれの写真家アンドリュー・マコーネルがカザフスタンに足を運ぶようになったのは、ロシアの宇宙船ソユーズの宇宙カプセルが空から落ちてくるのを見たかったからだ。2015年当時、人類が国際宇宙ステーションと行き来するための唯一の手段はカプセル型宇宙船だった。カプセルはカザフスタン南部のバイコヌール宇宙基地から打ち上げられ、地球に帰還する際には、基地の約400マイル（約640km）北に落下する。長年、紛争地帯で写真家として活動してきたマコーネルは、もう少し希望のある写真を撮りたいと強く願っていた。そこで、ロシアの宇宙機関ロスコスモスのために着陸を撮影する地上チームと連絡を取り、中央アジアの草原地帯を訪れた。...
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Keith Gessen
Once he got out from under occupation—he and other dormitory residents were evacuated in mid-March—Osievsky tried to join the Army. According to his best friend, Iaroslav Kovalchuk, a graduate student in history and an editor at Spilne, he did it out of a sense that the burden of the war should be shared equally—most of the soldiers have been working-class men and farmers—and that it needed to be fought.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Keith Gessen
The Irish-born photographer Andrew McConnell first started going to Kazakhstan because he wanted to see a Soyuz space capsule fall out of the sky. At the time, in 2015, the capsule, which launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan and came back to Earth about four hundred miles to the north, was the only way for humans to get to and from the International Space Station.
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Keith Gessen
Natasha Hall grew up in Arlington, Virginia, in the nineteen-eighties. Her mother, who was originally from Jordan, was an accountant at the World Bank; her father, who was a Vietnam War vet and marine biologist, worked at the Environmental Protection Agency. During the summers, they would sometimes visit her mother’s family in Jordan; in 1996, in the wake of the Oslo Accords, they were able to visit the West Bank.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
archive.is | Sam Knight |Keith Gessen |Rebecca Mead |Sheelah Kolhatkar
And so stupid things happened. Since 2010, forty-three per cent of the courts in England and Wales have closed. No one thinks that this was a good idea. For years, the Conservatives cut prison funding and staffing while encouraging longer jail times. “You kind of had a mismatch,” Gauke, who later served as the Justice Secretary, admitted.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Keith Gessen
Long before it was reported, at the end of January, that Volodymyr Zelensky had decided to replace his popular Army chief, Valery Zaluzhny, the Ukrainian counter-offensive of 2023 had devolved from attempted maneuvers to mutual recriminations. The arrows pointed in multiple directions: Zelensky seemed to think that his commander-in-chief was being defeatist; Zaluzhny, that his President was refusing to face facts. And there were arguments, too, between Ukraine and its allies.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Keith Gessen
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