In Ukraine, photographer Misha Friedman interviewed and photographed families who were forced to leave their country due to the Russian invasion. Underlying all of these images is the realization that the country left behind no longer exists as it once did codastory.com/disinformation…

For those of us who have lived and covered this war from 2014 and before it is hard to imagine a more counterfactual, distorted and frankly offensive interpretation of the last decade

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Classic Guardian correction

la mayor demostración de nobleza y bondad que tuvo daniel naroditsky está acá, le gana a ivanchuk por tiempo, el rival quiebra en llanto por la frustración y naroditsky, muy respetuosamente, se queda sentado en su lugar y no se retira, gran humano

Dnipro.

Russian attack drones hit multiple residential buildings in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, this morning. Seen here, a Russian Shahed-136 slams into a tower block in the Pozniaky neighborhood.

Did you know that Ian Nepomniachtchi was one of the players who helped Magnus Carlsen prepare for his first World Championship match in 2013, the one in which he took the title from Vishy Anand? Getty photographer Misha Friedman was granted access to the training camp in Norway —

As someone whose work led International Chess Federation to introduce a rule requiring all prospective grandmasters to obtain at least one norm in an open tournament, it’s very depressing to see Faustino Oro’s parents chose Aeroflot Open in Moscow to try to break the youngest GM record.

Is Epstein the Sauron of our times?

In case you missed this book a couple of years ago, now you can buy it in New York City’s Ukrainian Museum. shop.theukrainianmuseum.org/collections/bo…

please stop by if you are in New York this Thursday. I promise the talk won’t be as heavy as it sounds.

Incredibly hard to read but the torture and inhumane treatment of Ukrainians in Russian custody have to be studied and documented. A diary of a Kherson civilian illegally captured and tortured in 2022 (in Rus). There is also a mention of underage inmates: zona.media/article/2026/0…