“Why did the Russian state go after an experimental theatre director?”
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Russia’s ‘Ghost Detainees’: The Investigation That Cost Viktoriia Roshchyna Her Life
“Forbidden Stories investigated her detention and death, which came on the heels of a reporting trip to Zaporizhzhia aimed at telling the stories of Ukrainian civilians unlawfully held by Russia.”
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The Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online Poker
“How a card-playing Siberian AI outsmarted the world’s brightest researchers and raked in millions.”
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Ukraine’s Death-Defying Art Rescuers
“When Putin invaded, a historian in Kyiv saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was in danger. So he set out to save as much of it as he could.”
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A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld
“After Zac Brettler mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his grieving parents discovered that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son. Would the police help them solve the puzzle of his death?”
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Children of War
As Russia invaded Ukraine, three women from the same family became pregnant at the same time. Then the war tore them apart.
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The Wild Quest to Create a Fake Indian Cricket League … That Was Just the Beginning
“Davda’s Molipur cricket league was not a one-off caper, it turns out. It was a single node in a network of at least dozens of Molipur-style scams worldwide.”
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Grady Kurpasi Went to Ukraine to Fight. Then He Disappeared
“So Kurpasi’s family and friends held out hope. If the Russians lied about Feldcamp, maybe they were wrong about Kurpasi, too.”
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How the War in Ukraine Has Forever Changed the Children in One Kindergarten Class
“In the city of Kharkiv, in northeast Ukraine, there is a kindergarten classroom with bright yellow and green walls and long, gauzy curtains…But these days, there are no children.”
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The Collaborators
“As occupied territories are liberated, some residents face accusations that they sided with the enemy.”