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Russia

Three athletes crouch in a starting position for a race while three suited officials observe behind them.
December 2019 / Sports

How the World Anti-Doping Agency Betrays Honest Athletes

November 13, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Curtis Gillespie

When the highest authority on cheating is compromised, what happens to athletes who play by the rules?

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Dirty Money

How Vladimir Putin’s Regime Uses the Climate Crisis to Get Rich

September 4, 2019January 10, 2020 - by Paul Watson

The Russian president and his business allies are exploiting the warming Arctic to amass natural resources, wealth, and power

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Pixelated portrait of Vladimir Putin with social media icons around him
December 2018 / Politics

Could the Russians Decide Canada’s Next Prime Minister?

November 21, 2018June 2, 2020 - by Justin Ling

Why the upcoming federal election isn’t safe from manipulation by Moscow

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Joseph Stalin with his daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva
Books

The Biographer’s Story

September 24, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Rosemary Sullivan

On writing Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

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World

Crisis in Ukraine

June 20, 2014September 24, 2020 - by Lucan Way

An update to “Putin’s Move,” from the July/August magazine

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An alligator that says "Miscellany" in its mouth
July/August 2014 / World

Putin’s Move

June 16, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Lucan Way

The collapse of Ukraine’s Faustian bargain

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Politics

Undertow

March 19, 2014September 11, 2020 - by Jeff Parker

Russia, Ukraine, and changing currents in the political waters of Crimea

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Hockey player in a locker room
Feature / March 2014

Sledgehammer

March 17, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Drew Nelles

Will the Sochi Paralympics propel disabled sport into the mainstream?

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Person in a field looking at a town and the lake behind it
Photography

Home Lands

February 20, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Julien Russell Brunet

A photographer traces his Mennonite roots from the Netherlands through Siberia

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Illustration by Patrick Doyon
March 2014 / Sports

Olympic Pride

February 17, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Our athletes can’t ignore Russia’s anti-gay legislation

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