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January 06, 2020 | Politico
In Pictures: The New Faces of ‘Gayropa’
Asylum-seekers face a series of hurdles as widely varied as the stories that brought them to the Continent.
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Russia
December 13, 2019 | BBC Newsday
Pulitzer Center Grantee Simon Ostrovsky Discussed Peace Talks Between Ukraine and Russia on 'Newsday'
The presidents of Ukraine and Russia are to start face to face peace talks.
December 09, 2019 | 1a
A Path to Peace in Ukraine: Simon Ostrovsky on '1A'
Grantee Simon Ostrovsky appeared on 1A to discuss his Pulitzer Center-supported reporting on Ukraine-Russia peace talks.
November 20, 2019 | Pulitzer Center
28 Years After Restoring Independence, the Shadow of the Russian Bear Is Still Swirling Over Estonia
Not too long ago, this small country was a part of the Soviet Union. Today, Estonia is the first defense line the Russians would face.
October 29, 2019 | Wired.com
The Shady Cryptocurrency Boom on the Post-Soviet Frontier
Dodgy energy deals, loose regulation, and dubious characters—with links to the Hillary Clinton email hackers—are fueling a burgeoning crypto industry that could provide an end run around US sanctions.
October 22, 2019 | Science Magazine
Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies
Denis Rebrikov, a DNA sequencing specialist at the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University in Moscow, has attracted worldwide scrutiny for plans to fix mutations in human embryos before their implantation.
October 22, 2019 | Science Magazine
Deaf Couple May Edit Embryo’s DNA to Correct Hearing Mutation
A Moscow couple considering having a second child shares a genetic mutation that guarantees any son or daughter will have hearing loss.
September 25, 2019 | WBUR
Warming Seas Wreak Havoc On The Bering Sea, Once A Productive Fishery
Hal Bernton speaks with Robin Young about the issues fisheries face as ice melts in the Bering Sea.
August 17, 2019 | Field Notes
Russian Boarding House: Elena
Elena and her son stay at the hospital before handing the child over to an orphanage. Elena would like to leave her son there until she finds a job.
August 17, 2019 | Field Notes
Russian Boarding House: New Year's Party
The New Year's party organized for patients of the "female" psycho-neurological boarding house is receiving guests—patients from the "male" psycho-neurological boarding house.
August 16, 2019 | Takie Dela
Those Who Are Not Allowed to Love (Russian)
This web documentary sheds a human light on the limited rights of Russian citizens who permanently reside in the psycho-neurological boarding schools (PNIs), social institutions where adults and elderly people with mental disorders are kept.
July 07, 2019 | The Times
Soviet Nostalgia Hunters Flock to Transnistria Nuclear Bunker
A forgotten nuclear bunker in a remote corner of Moldova is the latest must-see attraction on the Soviet nostalgia trail.
Ukraine Peace Talks
Will peace talks between Ukraine and Russia result in an end to the war in Eastern Ukraine?
Estonia: The Threat Next Door
Hani Zaitoun examines Estonia's defense capabilities and its special relationship with its Russian neighbor and the Russian ethnic minority that makes up almost 30 percent of Estonia's population.
The Thin Red Line
Despite sharp international criticism, a Russian geneticist is pushing forward a project to edit embryos of a deaf couple so their children won't inherit the mutation that impairs their hearing.
A Cryptocurrency Rush In The Grey Zone
Why is there a rush for cryptocurrencies in places that don't exist? A story set in the post-Soviet space, where ultra-libertarianism meets kleptocracy and sanctions evasion.
Ukraine's 2019 Elections: Disinformation and Divides
Ukraine—the home of Europe’s hot war, and the Petri dish where Russian information operations are tested—holds a consequential presidential election in spring 2019.
A Lost Nation in the Caucasus
In the Caucasus mountains, members of the most scattered people in the world—the Circassians—are starting to come home following a decade of concerted online activism.
Far from Over
Tools are now available to prevent and treat HIV infections, but Russia, Nigeria and the U.S. state of Florida each are struggling, for different reasons, to fully exploit the power of these tools.
Obstacles to Balkans Peace
Russian meddling, nationalist rhetoric, and lingering hatred block Balkan conflict zones' progress.
Russia: Women Hit Hard by HIV/AIDS
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is at a tipping point in Russia, where an estimated 1-1.5 million people are HIV positive and the Kremlin has long rejected international assistance. Women are being left behind.
Seven Dates
"Seven Dates" explores the impact of sexual segregation in psycho-neurological boarding houses in Russia.
Inside Russia
PBS NewsHour goes inside Russia for a series that explores everything from the bilateral relationship with the United States to ascendant nationalism, widespread propaganda, and the fate of the President Vladimir Putin’s enemies.
Russia's Real Foreign Policy
What does Russia really want and how does it get it? A look at Russian foreign policy—from agenda to implementation—in Europe and the Middle East.
May 08, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Ben Mauk
Ben Mauk on his cover feature "Mountain of Tongues" and his travels through the "Lost Nation" in the Russian Caucasus—discussing the long-awaited coming home of the Circassians.
September 27, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Amy Martin
Threshold is a public radio show and podcast tackling one pressing environmental issue each season. The show aims to be a home for nuanced journalism about human relationships with the natural world.
June 25, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Jon Cohen
Nigeria, Russia, and Florida have each had difficulty mounting a strong response to HIV/AIDS, at a time when neighboring countries or states have made progress in bringing their epidemics to an end.
July 26, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Nick Schifrin and Zach Fannin
Nick Schifrin and Zach Fannin reported from Russia on patriotism, media, radicalism, the Kremlin’s enemies, the country’s relationship with the United States, and the emerging protest movement.
March 21, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Joshua Kucera
Joshua Kucera traveled along the conventional border between Europe and Asia, from Istanbul's Bosphorus to the Russian Arctic—reporting on the people who live between East and West.
February 06, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Rachel Oswald
CQ Roll Call foreign policy reporter Rachel Oswald discusses her summer 2015 Pulitzer Center reporting trip to Moscow where she focused on the breakdown in U.S.-Russia nuclear confidence.
January 25, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Eli Kintisch
Eli Kintisch visited high Arctic sites in Siberia and Alaska to report on the tenuous state of the permafrost.
September 17, 2014 | Meet the Journalist
Journalist Misha Friedman on Homophobia in Russia
Pulitzer grantee Misha Friedman travels to Russia to report on how LGBT communities have been affected by the amendment to Russia's Child Protection law, which effectively criminalized homosexuality.
August 09, 2013 | Meet the Journalist
Yves Eudes Discusses Climate Change in the Arctic
Le Monde journalist Yves Eudes discusses his six-part reporting project on climate change in the Arctic.
August 07, 2013 | Meet the Journalist
Gregory Gilderman Reporting on HIV in Russia
Gregory Gilderman has reported on heroin addiction in the United States, but found a far more desperate situation in Russia.
September 14, 2012 | Meet the Journalist
Nuclear “Newcomers” Come to Russia
Reporter Eve Conant visits the once-secret city of Obninsk, outside Moscow, where Russia is educating “nuclear newcomers” from Belarus, Turkey, Vietnam, Bangladesh and other countries.
September 14, 2012 | Meet the Journalist
Joshua Yaffa on the Reawakening of Russian Protest Politics
Joshua Yaffa reports from Russia on how a protest movement opposed to Vladimir Putin took hold in Moscow and other large cities, and how the country has since changed.
July 26, 2019 | General news, Awards
'The End of AIDS: Far From Over' Nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award
What are the challenges to ending AIDS? "Far From Over," a series supported by the Pulitzer Center for PBS NewsHour exploring societal stigma against HIV/AIDS, was nominated for an Emmy Award.
June 27, 2019 | Newsletter
This Week: Modern Slavery In Italy
The Pulitzer Center's newsletter for the week of June 25, 2019.
March 25, 2019 | Project news, Awards
Grantee Louie Palu Receives Series of Awards
Louie Palu received four awards in three contests for his Pulitzer-supported project 'New Cold War.'
March 20, 2019 | Project news, Awards
Pulitzer Center Grantees Receive 2019 Overseas Press Club Awards and Citations
Grantees Nariman El-Mofty, Shiho Fukada, and Jeffrey E. Stern received OPC awards for their reporting projects, while Amy Martin, Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry, and Nariman El-Mofty received citations.
July 31, 2018 | General news, Project news, Awards
'Inside Putin's Russia' Wins National Press Club Award
Grantees Nick Schifrin and Zach Fannin have won the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence in Broadcast.
July 02, 2018 | General news
Journalist Anna Nemtsova Discusses HIV/AIDS Crisis in Russia
Moscow-based reporter focuses on women in much of her reporting because she says you can tell a lot about a country and a crisis through their stories.
June 15, 2018 | Project news
Pulitzer Center's 'Far from Over' Series Explores Challenges to 'Ending Aids'
A special series supported by the Pulitzer Center for Science magazine and PBS NewsHour.
April 24, 2018 | Awards
'Inside Putin's Russia' Wins Peabody Award
Pulitzer Center grantees win Peabody Award for PBS NewsHour series on Putin's Russia.
October 31, 2017 | Newsletter
This Week: Where Domestic Abuse Is Tolerated
This week: a harrowing look into Russian domestic violence, a special investigation into how Jewish Federations spend their money, and how Qatar is jailing new mothers and their babies.
October 09, 2017 | General news
Marvin Kalb Publishes First Memoir: "The Year I Was Peter the Great"
Our resident senior advisor documents his time in Moscow during the Cold War.
August 15, 2017 | Newsletter
This Week: Living on the Margins
This week: Economic despair drives migration to Moscow, the Catholic Church's response to Duterte's killings, and PBS NewsHour revisits reporting on the US's nuclear arsenal.
July 11, 2017 | Newsletter
This Week: Russia in the Age of Putin
This week: Russian identity and the use of propaganda, Venezuelans fleeing to Columbia, and a 14-year-old's journey to Germany.
July 31, 2019 | All Grades
Toolkit for Your Next Discussion on Conflict and Peacebuilding
Conflict—difficult to define, but keenly felt. Explore these stories about under-reported aspects of conflict and peacebuilding.
April 09, 2019 | Elementary, Middle School, High School
Fighting Climate Change with Community Action
This lesson introduces students to some of the ways people around the world are fighting climate change in their own communities, and challenges them to take action themselves.
June 19, 2017 | All Grades
Resources for the University of Chicago Summer Institute for Educators 2017
This plan includes lessons connected to the work of journalists that presented at the University of Chicago Summer Teacher Institute in June 2017.
September 26, 2016 | All Grades
Jewell: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
July 11, 2016 | Elementary, Middle School, High School
Cold War Fault Lines
Students explore explore Nick Schifrin and Zach Fannin’s project “Cold War Fault Lines," which considers growing military activity in Eastern Europe.
June 28, 2016 | All Grades
Resources for University of Chicago Teachers
This plan includes lesson plans connected to the work of journalists that presented at the UChicago Summer Teacher Institute in June 2016.
June 28, 2016 | College
Chew on This
College journalism students analyze Eli Kintisch’s reporting process and journalistic strengths.
June 17, 2016 | All Grades
Funston: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
May 02, 2016 | All Grades, High School
Curriculum Connections for 10th Grade History Teachers in D.C. public schools
The following serves as a resource for DC public school teachers working with the District's tenth grade history standards, providing teachers with a list of Pulitzer Center projects in line with...
April 22, 2016 | All Grades
Global concern
In this lesson, students discuss the reporting project "Nuclear Winter."
April 10, 2016 | College
Human Rights Reporting
Students will critically examine the legal, professional and moral obligations of journalists as witnesses to all kinds of human rights violations.
March 23, 2016 | Middle School, High School
Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's 'Guernica'
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
