Alec Luhn

Alec Luhn is a Moscow-based journalist who has written for the Guardian, Politico, Slate, The Nation, the Independent, Vice News, and other publications.
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Steam rises off the freezing water as a Chinese man rows his boat along the Yalu River between China and North Korea some 70 kms north of the North Korean border town of Siniuju which lies across the river from Dandong in northeast China's Liaoning province on November 26, 2010. AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
Steam rises off the freezing water as a Chinese man rows his boat along the Yalu River between China and North Korea some 70 kms north of the North Korean border town of Siniuju which lies across the river from Dandong in northeast China's Liaoning province on November 26, 2010. AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)

Russia Wants North Korea’s Money, Not Its Refugees

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Vladimir Putin Doesn’t Actually Care About Saving Leopards

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Russia’s Reality Trolls and the MH17 War of Misinformation

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Boris Nemtsov and the Convenient Chechen Connection

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The Draft Dodgers of Ukraine

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Vlad Is Rad

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Cluster Bombs in Potato Fields and Tripwires on the Cow Path

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Trading With Terrorists, Ukraine-Style

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Ruins and Rising in Luhansk

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Personal Effects

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If a Grad Rocket Falls During a Cease-Fire…

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Anatomy of a Bloodbath

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Putin Takes Off the Gloves in Eastern Ukraine

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Preparing for War With Ukraine’s Fascist Defenders of Freedom

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Cabbage Soup and Ravioli

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