Recommendations
The Death of Alexei Navalny
Even behind bars Navalny was a real threat to Putin, because he was living proof that courage is possible, that truth exists, that Russia could be a different kind of country. For a dictator who survives thanks to lies and violence, that kind of challenge was intolerable. Now Putin will be forced to fight against Navalny’s memory, and that is a battle he will never win.
Anne Applebaum, “Why Russia Killed Navalny”
Daniel Beer, “Navalny and Russia’s lost future”
Catherine Belton, “Vladimir Putin, riding high before Navalny’s death, seems unstoppable”
Alan Cullison, “Navalny’s Death Crowns a Long-Running Campaign Against Kremlin Critics”
Masha Gessen, “The Death of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Formidable Opponent”
Alex Kliment “‘A film is a weapon on time delay’ — an interview with ‘Navalny’ director Daniel Roher”
China Stories
James Carter, “This Week in China’s History: The Qing Abdication”
Hillary Leung, “‘I go almost every day’: The elderly Hong Kong democracy advocates following 2019 protest court cases”
Susan Meiselas and photographers, “From the Mines to the Glaciers”
David Pierson, “As China Tries to Present a Friendlier Image, a New Face Emerges”
Christian Shepherd and Lyric Li, “Young Chinese, fed up with family pressure, opt out of Lunar New Year”
Lingling Wei and Stella Yifan Xie, “China Revives Socialist Ideas to Fix Its Real-Estate Crisis”
Wanderings Around the World
Ben Bland, “Why ‘continuity’ Prabowo means change for Indonesia”
Leila Fadel and Anthony Kuhn, “Indonesia, the world’s third largest democracy, has voted for a new president”
Mike Ives and Chau Doan, “Confiscated Motorbikes Pile Up as Vietnam Goes After Drunken Driving”
Anne Helen Petersen, “Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center” — interview with Rhaina Cohen on her new book, The Other Significant Others
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 