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Eilish Hart@eilishhart.bsky.social |
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Editor of Meduza’s long-reads newsletter, The Beet, covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. 📧 Send tips & pitches: beet@meduza.io
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New from The Beet: journalist Diana Kruzman tells the story of Kazakhstan’s antinuclear movement, from Semipalatinsk to present. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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Ten years ago, Andrea Cellino was on the ground in Donbas, leading the first team of OSCE monitors deployed to Luhansk. For The Beet, he recounts his experience at the outset of Russia’s war on Ukraine. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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New from The Beet: With World Cup qualifying under way, Bektour Iskender reports on the latest developments in Kyrgyz soccer. This story involves FC Barcelona, Bishkek’s spy chief, and the ongoing clampdown on press freedoms in Kyrgyzstan. Don’t miss it! meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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The Beet’s latest unravels why, with Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine now in its third year, Western tourists and expats are slowly but surely returning to Russia. Given the French citizen arrested yesterday, it’s tragically timely. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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New from The Beet: On-the-ground coverage of ongoing protests in Armenia over the delimitation of its shared border with Azerbaijan. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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In this week’s issue of The Beet, journalist Konstantin Skorkin looks to the future and examines the key stumbling blocks for rebuilding Ukraine that are already emerging through the fog of war. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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The Beet’s latest feature story, digs into what’s eating Latvia’s restaurant scene, which recently received its own Michelin Guide but is still struggling to stay afloat. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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Zinaida Safronova was 1.5 years old when she was taken to a Nazi concentration camp. Then, at 82, she was thrown back into a life of war when Russia invaded Ukraine — and a German aid network was there to help. The Beet’s latest. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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For this week’s issue of The Beet, the excellent Bektour Iskender dives into one area where Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have been unafraid to push back against Russia: language policy. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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For The Beet, the team behind Meduza’s Signal newsletter explains how the Kremlin is spinning the Crocus City Hall attack — and why the Russian public appears to be buying in. The story starts with Moscow’s wars against Chechen separatists in the 1990s.
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For The Beet, @Aliide_N tells the story of how Dolores Hoffmann went from being a child of “enemies of the people” in the atheist USSR to being a stained glass master whose work can be found in religious institutions throughout Estonia and beyond.
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The Beet’s latest begins in an “invisible national park” in the Carpathian Forest, taking us all the way to the Oder River and back again, as we follow the environmental activists and experts fighting to preserve Poland’s natural wonders. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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ICYMI: Last week, The Beet delved into Armenia’s contemporary music scene to learn how a new generation of folk-rock artists are navigating conflict, creativity, and cultural preservation. And yes, we made you a playlist 🎶 meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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This week The Beet brings you a very special treat: A trip to Bishkek’s Dordoi Bazaar & an accompanying recipe courtesy of the wonderful @edentravels.bsky.social! Plus, my little chat with Caroline about her recent trip to Odesa & her forthcoming memoir “Cold Kitchen.” meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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In war-torn Kostiantynivka, mothers are caught between the hope that Ukraine’s military can fight off Russian advances and the fear that they’ll have no option but to flee for the sake of their children. The Beet’s latest. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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With a U.S. election on the horizon, The Naked Pravda turns to Politico national security reporter Alex Ward for a behind-the-scenes look at team Biden’s Russia and Ukraine policy, as told in his new book “The Internationalists.” meduza.io/en/episodes/...
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Russia’s war against Ukraine has divided the Moldovan Orthodox Church, with some priests calling for a break with Moscow and others defecting to the Romanian Patriarchate. Paula Erizanu reports from Moldova for The Beet. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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Christy Quirk
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Oirtes, Buryats, Tyvans: They aren't Russian but they're dying in Ukraine so Russians don't have to. Losses are catalyzing indigenous and non-Russian activists in Russia to ask why. Leyla Latypova is on this beat. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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What does decolonizing Russia mean to the peoples Moscow colonized? For The Beet, the one and only Leyla Latypova explores the broad spectrum of Indigenous initiatives that make up Russia’s decolonial movement. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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I shared my observations of the past two years and looked to 2024 in my long read for The Guardian. It’s now also available as a podcast, narrated by me.
Listen and read here: ‘Ukraine fatigue’: why I’m fighting to stop the world forgetting us. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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One year after “earthquake diplomacy” briefly opened the Armenia-Turkey border, a newly rebuilt checkpoint in the village of Margara remains closed. The Beet’s latest dispatch. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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With elections on the horizon, the Georgian government’s billionaire éminence grise has emerged from the shadows. The Beet reports on what the “third coming” of Bidzina Ivanishvili means for Georgia’s domestic politics 🇬🇪 meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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New from The Beet: Journalist Diana Kruzman reports on Kyrgyzstan’s growing organic movement and the challenges facing farmers who want to grow chemical-free crops. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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In a report that takes us to Buryatia, Mongolia, and beyond Siberia-based outlet People of Baikal investigates why so many people in the Russian Far East are getting plastic surgery to change the shape of their eyes. Translation by yours truly for The Beet. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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“The Germans ruined my childhood, and Russia ruined my old age.”
In some of the most war-torn areas of Ukraine, elderly residents are risking death to live out their final years at home — or as close to it as possible. New, from The Beet. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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“If Western democracies were more resolute in helping the democratic movement in Belarus in 2020, […] there would be no war in Ukraine.”
My Q&A with Belarusian opposition politician Andrei Sannikov on sanctions, nuclear weapons, and freeing political prisoners meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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The Beet rang in 2024 with a dispatch from Armenia, where the country’s millennia-old winemaking tradition is experiencing revival. Sona Hovsepyan reports on how local vintners are going back to their roots and trying to make up for lost time. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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The Beet is closing out 2023 with a very special feature by @sambreazeale.bsky.social. I hope you find the Wolf family’s remarkable story of separation, survival, and soul searching as moving as I did. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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This story from my colleague @sambreazeale.bsky.social is one of the most beautiful things I've read all year. This is how Lena Wolf & her family, like so many families, were entangled in the disasters & upheaval of Russian empire — migration, deportations, a brutal state, & how it shapes people.
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Sam Breazeale
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For @meduza.io's The Beet, I wrote about a family whose story, shaped by Stalin's mass deportations, spans from southern Ukraine to Kazakhstan to Latvia to Germany. Thanks to Lena Wolf for sharing her story with me and
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To learn more about Lena Wolf and her family history, tune into @meduza.io’s The Naked Pravda! Lena was kind enough to sit down with @sambreazeale.bsky.social and I to discuss the process of turning her family’s story into a graphic novel. meduza.io/en/episodes/...
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The Beet is closing out 2023 with a very special feature by @sambreazeale.bsky.social. I hope you find the Wolf family’s remarkable story of separation, survival, and soul searching as moving as I did. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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In which poet and musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski confronts Poland’s politics of memory. New, from The Beet. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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⚡️Historic news for Ukraine and Moldova as the E.U. agrees to open accession talks 🇺🇦🇲🇩 Plus candidate status for Georgia 🇬🇪 www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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“It’s our historical responsibility to break the cycle of impunity that Russia has enjoyed for decades.”
A conversation with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk about pursuing justice for Ukraine in wartime. My latest for The Beet. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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Tajikistan’s capital has been in the throes of a construction boom for years. In a new dispatch from Dushanbe, The Beet delves into the costs and consequences of the city’s radical redevelopment. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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Russia’s Supreme Court has granted the Justice Ministry’s request to ban the “international LGBT movement.” Human rights advocates have warned that the ban will likely lead to an increase in harassment and persecution against LGBTQ+ people.
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“The authorities didn’t want him to ‘contaminate’ other prisoners with his views. And of course, knowing Vladimir, they were sort of right, because he would.”
My interview with Evgenia Kara-Murza about her husband’s imprisonment and Russia’s future. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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Near the border with Russia, villages in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region have faced unrelenting attacks. But displaced locals are returning as their communities work to repair the damage that war and occupation have done. @fabricedeprez.bsky.social reports for The Beet. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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Russia launched a massive drone attack on Ukraine early Saturday, targeting the country’s capital. Kyiv officials say it’s the biggest of its kind since the start of the full-scale war.
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As Russia continues its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, villages in the Kharkiv region attempt to repair the damage that war and occupation have done. A sweeping dispatch for The Beet courtesy of @fabricedeprez.bsky.social. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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Emily S.
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A really interesting look into the challenges of preserving endangered languages in Georgia from @sashaslobodov.bsky.social for @meduza.io's The Beet!
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“When we talk about political prisoners — like in the case of my husband and so many [other] Russian citizens — we’re very often talking about an alternative to the existing regime.”
Evgenia Kara-Murza on Vladimir Kara-Murza’s imprisonment and Russia’s future.
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“The authorities didn’t want him to ‘contaminate’ other prisoners with his views. And of course, knowing Vladimir, they were sort of right, because he would.”
My interview with Evgenia Kara-Murza about her husband’s imprisonment and Russia’s future. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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Ukraine’s top prosecutor says Kyiv has collected evidence of around 109,000 alleged Russian war crimes. www.politico.com/news/2023/11...
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After the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh, more than 100,000 people fled the region for Armenia. For The Beet, journalist Sona Hovsepyan reports on how these refugees are faring as they undertake the difficult task of rebuilding their lives from scratch. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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In other words, people seem to support Putin and his decision making, whether he’s waging a war or suing for peace. Perhaps this war is less “existential” for Putin than one might think.
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While there’s valid skepticism about polling in Russia these days, the wording of the question here caught my eye: “74% of respondents said they would support a decision *by the president* to sign a peace treaty ‘as soon as tomorrow.’”
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RBC reports that President Vladimir Putin has pardoned one of the men involved in the 2006 killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Sergei Khadzhikurbanov received a pardon for participating in the war in Ukraine. meduza.io/en/news/2023...
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Happy to share my first story for @meduza.io’s The Beet! I talked to Megrelian speakers, language activists, and experts to learn more about the challenges of preserving endangered languages in Georgia. t.co/61wH0z2AGc
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