A friend just reminded me of this: Navalny came to my going away party when I was moving back to the US in 2012. He chided me for leaving. Things were just getting interesting, he said. Back then, there was still so much hope and possibility in Russia, so much promise. That Russia, those days seem like a happy dream, unrecognizable from the Russia it became. It is all unbearable.
New headshots just dropped, courtesy of the person whose photography is all over my house and who is the best travel companion and friend of all time, @maxavdeev.
New headshots just dropped, courtesy of the person whose photography is all over my house and who is the best travel companion and friend of all time, @maxavdeev.
New headshots just dropped, courtesy of the person whose photography is all over my house and who is the best travel companion and friend of all time, @maxavdeev.
New headshots just dropped, courtesy of the person whose photography is all over my house and who is the best travel companion and friend of all time, @maxavdeev.
“Over the weekend, as Alexey Navalny’s death was confirmed by his team—and as the prison authorities announced ‘sudden death syndrome’ as the cause—and as his mother tried to chase down her son’s body in the wilds of the Russian Arctic, the idea that Navalny was gone, forever, sunk in among the Russian opposition, as well as among Russians who are quietly waiting out a regime they loathe,” Julia Ioffe writes. “The hero and hope of a generation, of the generations coming up behind Putin and his bloody, revanchist fantasies, had been killed. The future, a gleeful Putin seemed to be telling Russians, would be just like the present and the past: an endless, stultifying loop of war and terror and repression, with no end or hope in sight.” Enter Yulia Navalny. Read Julia Ioffe’s full dispatch at the link in bio. Photo: Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images #Navalny #AlexeyNavalny #YuliaNavalny #Russia #Putin
“Over the weekend, as Alexey Navalny’s death was confirmed by his team—and as the prison authorities announced ‘sudden death syndrome’ as the cause—and as his mother tried to chase down her son’s body in the wilds of the Russian Arctic, the idea that Navalny was gone, forever, sunk in among the Russian opposition, as well as among Russians who are quietly waiting out a regime they loathe,” Julia Ioffe writes. “The hero and hope of a generation, of the generations coming up behind Putin and his bloody, revanchist fantasies, had been killed. The future, a gleeful Putin seemed to be telling Russians, would be just like the present and the past: an endless, stultifying loop of war and terror and repression, with no end or hope in sight.” Enter Yulia Navalny. Read Julia Ioffe’s full dispatch at the link in bio. Photo: Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images #Navalny #AlexeyNavalny #YuliaNavalny #Russia #Putin
“Over the weekend, as Alexey Navalny’s death was confirmed by his team—and as the prison authorities announced ‘sudden death syndrome’ as the cause—and as his mother tried to chase down her son’s body in the wilds of the Russian Arctic, the idea that Navalny was gone, forever, sunk in among the Russian opposition, as well as among Russians who are quietly waiting out a regime they loathe,” Julia Ioffe writes. “The hero and hope of a generation, of the generations coming up behind Putin and his bloody, revanchist fantasies, had been killed. The future, a gleeful Putin seemed to be telling Russians, would be just like the present and the past: an endless, stultifying loop of war and terror and repression, with no end or hope in sight.” Enter Yulia Navalny. Read Julia Ioffe’s full dispatch at the link in bio. Photo: Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images #Navalny #AlexeyNavalny #YuliaNavalny #Russia #Putin
“Over the weekend, as Alexey Navalny’s death was confirmed by his team—and as the prison authorities announced ‘sudden death syndrome’ as the cause—and as his mother tried to chase down her son’s body in the wilds of the Russian Arctic, the idea that Navalny was gone, forever, sunk in among the Russian opposition, as well as among Russians who are quietly waiting out a regime they loathe,” Julia Ioffe writes. “The hero and hope of a generation, of the generations coming up behind Putin and his bloody, revanchist fantasies, had been killed. The future, a gleeful Putin seemed to be telling Russians, would be just like the present and the past: an endless, stultifying loop of war and terror and repression, with no end or hope in sight.” Enter Yulia Navalny. Read Julia Ioffe’s full dispatch at the link in bio. Photo: Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images #Navalny #AlexeyNavalny #YuliaNavalny #Russia #Putin
“Over the weekend, as Alexey Navalny’s death was confirmed by his team—and as the prison authorities announced ‘sudden death syndrome’ as the cause—and as his mother tried to chase down her son’s body in the wilds of the Russian Arctic, the idea that Navalny was gone, forever, sunk in among the Russian opposition, as well as among Russians who are quietly waiting out a regime they loathe,” Julia Ioffe writes. “The hero and hope of a generation, of the generations coming up behind Putin and his bloody, revanchist fantasies, had been killed. The future, a gleeful Putin seemed to be telling Russians, would be just like the present and the past: an endless, stultifying loop of war and terror and repression, with no end or hope in sight.” Enter Yulia Navalny. Read Julia Ioffe’s full dispatch at the link in bio. Photo: Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images #Navalny #AlexeyNavalny #YuliaNavalny #Russia #Putin
No fear, only light.
David Scheffer is a pioneer in international human rights law. He helped set up war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge. He is also negotiated the creation of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the U.S. government in 1998. Puck’s Julia Ioffe gave Scheffer a call to pick his brain about what’s in South Africa’s complaint against Israel, what we can expect from the International Court of Justice, and what we talk about when we talk about genocide. Read their full conversation at the link in bio. Photo: David Scheffer, then roving U.S. ambassador for war crimes, visits Malisevo, Kosovo in 1998. (Credit to David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images) #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #UN #War
David Scheffer is a pioneer in international human rights law. He helped set up war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge. He is also negotiated the creation of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the U.S. government in 1998. Puck’s Julia Ioffe gave Scheffer a call to pick his brain about what’s in South Africa’s complaint against Israel, what we can expect from the International Court of Justice, and what we talk about when we talk about genocide. Read their full conversation at the link in bio. Photo: David Scheffer, then roving U.S. ambassador for war crimes, visits Malisevo, Kosovo in 1998. (Credit to David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images) #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #UN #War
David Scheffer is a pioneer in international human rights law. He helped set up war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge. He is also negotiated the creation of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the U.S. government in 1998. Puck’s Julia Ioffe gave Scheffer a call to pick his brain about what’s in South Africa’s complaint against Israel, what we can expect from the International Court of Justice, and what we talk about when we talk about genocide. Read their full conversation at the link in bio. Photo: David Scheffer, then roving U.S. ambassador for war crimes, visits Malisevo, Kosovo in 1998. (Credit to David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images) #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #UN #War
David Scheffer is a pioneer in international human rights law. He helped set up war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge. He is also negotiated the creation of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the U.S. government in 1998. Puck’s Julia Ioffe gave Scheffer a call to pick his brain about what’s in South Africa’s complaint against Israel, what we can expect from the International Court of Justice, and what we talk about when we talk about genocide. Read their full conversation at the link in bio. Photo: David Scheffer, then roving U.S. ambassador for war crimes, visits Malisevo, Kosovo in 1998. (Credit to David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images) #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #UN #War
David Scheffer is a pioneer in international human rights law. He helped set up war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge. He is also negotiated the creation of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the U.S. government in 1998. Puck’s Julia Ioffe gave Scheffer a call to pick his brain about what’s in South Africa’s complaint against Israel, what we can expect from the International Court of Justice, and what we talk about when we talk about genocide. Read their full conversation at the link in bio. Photo: David Scheffer, then roving U.S. ambassador for war crimes, visits Malisevo, Kosovo in 1998. (Credit to David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images) #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #UN #War
David Scheffer is a pioneer in international human rights law. He helped set up war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge. He is also negotiated the creation of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the U.S. government in 1998. Puck’s Julia Ioffe gave Scheffer a call to pick his brain about what’s in South Africa’s complaint against Israel, what we can expect from the International Court of Justice, and what we talk about when we talk about genocide. Read their full conversation at the link in bio. Photo: David Scheffer, then roving U.S. ambassador for war crimes, visits Malisevo, Kosovo in 1998. (Credit to David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images) #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #UN #War
“Under gray skies and a wet May snow, Vladimir Putin was inaugurated to his fifth term as Russian president on Tuesday, though I will be honest and say, I had to look that number up. It is a meaningless one, anyway. What is a presidential term to a man who intends to be king until he dies?” Read Julia Ioffe’s full essay at the link in bio. Photos: Sergei Bobylyov/Pool/AFP; Ilya Pitalev/SPUTNIK/AFP.
“Under gray skies and a wet May snow, Vladimir Putin was inaugurated to his fifth term as Russian president on Tuesday, though I will be honest and say, I had to look that number up. It is a meaningless one, anyway. What is a presidential term to a man who intends to be king until he dies?” Read Julia Ioffe’s full essay at the link in bio. Photos: Sergei Bobylyov/Pool/AFP; Ilya Pitalev/SPUTNIK/AFP.
“Under gray skies and a wet May snow, Vladimir Putin was inaugurated to his fifth term as Russian president on Tuesday, though I will be honest and say, I had to look that number up. It is a meaningless one, anyway. What is a presidential term to a man who intends to be king until he dies?” Read Julia Ioffe’s full essay at the link in bio. Photos: Sergei Bobylyov/Pool/AFP; Ilya Pitalev/SPUTNIK/AFP.
“Under gray skies and a wet May snow, Vladimir Putin was inaugurated to his fifth term as Russian president on Tuesday, though I will be honest and say, I had to look that number up. It is a meaningless one, anyway. What is a presidential term to a man who intends to be king until he dies?” Read Julia Ioffe’s full essay at the link in bio. Photos: Sergei Bobylyov/Pool/AFP; Ilya Pitalev/SPUTNIK/AFP.
On Friday, Alexey Navalny was buried, and despite the risk, tens of thousands of people came out to bid him farewell. “It was hard not to see last weekend as a kind of inversion of Bolotnaya, and of that entire winter when Alexey first emerged as the most credible leader of the anti-Putin movement,” Julia Ioffe writes. “But back then, the air was filled with a sense that better days were ahead, if not just around the corner. Russia seemed on the brink of finally, finally fulfilling its potential.” “What we saw this weekend was the end of that hopeful arc. First, the protest movement had been killed, and now so too had its leader. And though over 10,000 people in Moscow came out to bid Alexey farewell, what did it change, really? Putin would still be re-elected overwhelmingly for another six-year term, Russian missiles would keep killing Ukrainian children for no discernible reason, and dissent would land hundreds and thousands more Russians behind bars. If we thought the repression of Russian society was bad 15 years ago, it has become Stalinesque now.” Read Julia Ioffe’s full essay at the link in bio. Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images #Navalny #AlexeyNavalny #Russia #Moscow #Putin
“We’re not rewarding people with dignity and security. We are giving them their fundamental rights on both sides. Nobody should live under the circumstances that have happened since October 7th—or beforehand—moving forward.“ —Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Dean Amaney Jamal My latest. https://puck.news/the-view-from-gaza/
Julia Ioffe joins Peter Hamby on The Powers That Be to parse the ramifications of Russia’s presidential election after Vladimir Putin clocked in with an absolutely comical 87 percent of the vote. Listen to the full podcast at the link in bio. #Russia #Putin #Election #Navalny #Politics
