When I was seven I broke into a house with some older kids one summer. This was in Russia in the 90s, as the society around us was collapsing. The fall of the Soviet Union and the descent of the country into sudden, unregulated capitalism yielded the rapid development of inequality. Seemingly overnight a place […]
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Twenty years ago, in Moscow, Matt Taibbi was a misogynist asshole—and possibly worse
The Rolling Stone writer and author of I Can’t Breathe is answering for harassment he and Mark Ames bragged about in their 2000 memoir.
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Beast in the East
In Moscow’s Exile, hard news jumps in bed with misogyny and mayhem.