Moscow
Belarus Betrayal
Why Did FIFA Choose Russia?
It seems eccentric, to say the least, that the FIFA selection committee chose Russia as the World Cup’s home in 2018, and all the more so as it meant overlooking perfectly serviceable countries such as Britain. (They also chose Qatar over the U.S. for 2022, but that's another counterintuitive story altogether.) READ MORE >>
Rosenbergs Redux
The Coming Age of Slaughter
Can Silvio Berlusconi Sink Any Lower?
[Guest Post by Isaac Chotiner] Julia Ioffe has a report on the Putin-Berlusconi friendship that includes this charming anecdote: READ MORE >>
Frenemies
The Charnel Continent
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler And Stalin By Timothy Snyder (Basic Books, 524 pp., $29.95) READ MORE >>
The Art and Romance of the Diplomatic Cable
Glory
When They Come for Us We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry By Gal Beckerman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 598 pp., $30) READ MORE >>
