Selected Writing
My writing and reporting has appeared online and in print in a number of publications. It also includes book reviews and essays. If anything from the selection below becomes unavailable, I am happy to provide clips upon request.
On Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:
‘A Trump-Sized Hole is Looming in Europe’s Defenses Against Putin‘, Bloomberg News, November 2024
‘Ukraine Lays Its Tracks to Europe‘, July 2024
‘Still Drawing‘, London Review of Books, April 2024
‘In Zakharivka‘, London Review of Books, June 2023
‘Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Against Forced Russian Citizenship‘, Foreign Policy, June 2023
‘Russia’s Foreign Fighters: The Nepalis Training in Russia’s Army‘, Bellingcat, June 2023
‘The Truth over the Dnieper‘, London Review of Books, February 2023
‘Russia’s Kremenchuk Claims Versus the Evidence‘, Bellingcat, June 2022
‘Clues to the Fate of Five Damaged Cultural Heritage Sites in Ukraine‘, Bellingcat, June 2022
From Bloomberg News:
‘Fear of Russia is Driving a Push to Build Bunkers in Poland‘, May 2026
‘Poland’s Support for Ukrainians is Cracking at a Dangerous Time‘, November 2025
‘World’s Largest Orthodox Church Opens Doors to Divided Romania‘, October 2025
‘Putin and Poverty Divide Voters as Moldova Plots Path to Europe‘, September 2025
‘Trump Meeting Exposes the Political Rift Damaging Poland‘, September 2025
‘Poland’s Next Political Battle Starts as New President Takes Office‘, August 2025
‘Shocked Romanians Watch Their Country Go Into Political Meltdown‘, December 2024
‘Trump’s Man in Europe Gambles on the Return of his American Ally‘, November 2024
From The Guardian:
‘‘A Bloody Method of Control’: the Struggle to Take Down Europe’s Razor Wire Walls’, May 2020
From Foreign Policy:
‘Armenia’s Post-Revolution Party Is Over’, October 2018
‘Erdogan is Making the Ottoman Empire Great Again‘, June 2018
From The Atlantic:
‘Ukraine’s Quiet Depopulation Crisis‘, March 2020
‘The President Who Wants to Break Up His Own Country‘, January 2019
From Politico:
‘Ukraine’s People Power Problem’, October 2019
‘Bosnia’s Migrant Route Bottleneck‘, December 2018
From openDemocracy:
‘One Year After the Hanau Massacre, Victims’ Families Fight for Justice‘, February 2021
‘Letter From the Crimean Border‘, November 2017
‘It Could Happen Anywhere: A Sketch of the Modern Strongman‘, January 2017
‘Ossetians in Georgia, With their Backs to the Mountains‘, August 2016
From Ha’aretz:
Ukraine Just Elected its First Jewish President. Here’s Why It’s Not an Issue, April 2019
Erdogan’s Long Arm: The Turkish Dissidents Kidnapped From Europe, August 2018
From EurasiaNet:
‘A Graphic Satire on Rebuilding Yerevan‘, November 2019
‘Armenia to House World’s Largest Yezidi Temple‘, July 2016
From Al Jazeera:
‘Romania, a Beacon of Coexistence for Muslims in Eastern Europe‘, August 2019
‘Has Yulia Tymoshenko Lost the Battle and the War?‘, April 2019
From Nieman Reports:
‘Open Source Journalism in a Wired World‘, December 2022
From the Los Angeles Review of Books:
‘Bosnia’s Mosques Without Muslims‘, October 2019
From Global Voices:
‘Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh Raises Scrutiny of Israel’s Arms Sales to Azerbaijan‘, November 2020
‘Ukrainian Workers Battle Controversial New Labour Code‘, January 2020
‘A Professor’s Self-Immolation Puts the Spotlight on the Fragile Future of Russia’s Minority Languages‘, September 2019
‘How Protesters Are Deanonymising Moscow’s Riot Police‘, August 2019
From New Humanist:
‘Russia’s Forgotten Pacifists‘, Summer 2020 edition)
From New Eastern Europe:
‘The Trials of Ahmed H.‘, Online, March 2018
‘Polish Muslims, Polish Fears‘, Issue 6, 2018
Familiar Strangers: Central Europe’s Christian Refugees, Issue 1, 2017
From the Jewish Daily Forward:
‘We’re Subbotniks, Welcome to Our Synagogue‘, July 2014