Fellows & Editors
Joshua Keating
- Trip:
- Fellows 2014
- Affiliation:
- Slate
- Country:
- Russia
- Year:
- 2014
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Joshua Keating is a staff writer at Slate focusing on international news, foreign policy, and social science. Before coming to Slate, he was an editor for six years at Foreign Policy. A native of Brooklyn and graduate of Oberlin College, he currently lives in Washington, D.C.
Stories
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Putin’s Chosen People
Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center is an impressive place. Original artifacts, film clips, and interactive displays take visitors on a tour through centuries of Judaism’s...
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Russia Gets Religion
I’m not sure if it was out of personal preference or as a concession to his interviewer that Dmitry Sverdlov asked to meet me at a 1950s-style American diner in...
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God’s Oligarch
If being the subject of international sanctions is causing Konstantin Malofeev any stress, he’s not showing it. “The sanctions are a very stupid instrument that only Obama and his...
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Did Russia Really Boost Its Birthrate by Promising New Mothers Prize Money and Refrigerators?
Russia is hardly the only country with worries about population decline—birthrates are falling below the replacement fertility rate in nearly every industrialized country in the world. Russia, though,...
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Vladimir Putin’s Tiger Is Lost in China
If you happen to be traipsing about China’s Heilongjiang province and come across a lost-looking Siberian tiger, the Kremlin would like it back. {image-1} Kuzya, a tiger that was personally...
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The Chilling Effects of Russia’s Anti-Gay Law, One Year Later
Sitting in the food court of a Moscow shopping mall, Konstantin Yablotsky reflected on the effects of the Russian government’s hostility to what it calls “gay propaganda” over...
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Top Russian Officials Are Starting to Realize That the Country’s Economy Is in Big Trouble
You wouldn’t know it from the Chanel boutiques and Maserati dealerships lining the boulevards inside Moscow’s Garden Ring, but economic conditions in Russia are becoming dire. The ruble...
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Protesters and Counterprotesters at Moscow’s Big Anti-War March
When I first arrived at Pushkin Square about an hour before the start of a planned anti-war rally on Sunday, I thought I might have been in the wrong place....
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How Teflon Is Vladimir Putin’s Popularity?
I’m currently in Moscow thanks to a fellowship from the International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins. I’ll be posting some lengthier dispatches from here in the...
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Vladimir Putin Ramps Up His Postmodern Non-Invasion Invasion of Ukraine
The Russian government and the pro-Russian rebels in Eastern Ukraine used to denythat they were cooperating. All that advanced weaponry, including tanks and anti-aircraft systems, were simply captured from Ukrainian government...
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