Projects, Writing & Talks
Here's a list of links to some of the writing, projects & talks I did
Writing
- Neurospace: How a Berlin Space Start-Up Landed Contracts with NASA and SpaceX — Monocle Radio, The Entrepreneurs
- Berlin Swimmers Take the Plunge Amid Efforts to Reclaim Bathing in the Spree — Monocle
- How a Ukrainian Museum Director Became Russia's Propaganda Expert — IWMpost
- "The War Brought Enormous Benefit to Ukrainian Culture, Because It Woke Up" — Novaya Gazeta Europe
- Without Dialogue: A Report from the Venice Biennale — Novaya Gazeta Europe
- Putin's Culture War — The Dial
- Symbiotic Culture and Repression — Eurozine
- Curating Propaganda: How Russia Weaponizes Museums in Wartime — IWMpost
- The Last Case of Moscow's Antique & Art Police Squad — Originally for Esquire Russia
- Dating and Having Sex with AI Is the New Norm. How Does It Affect Us?
- He Spent 11 Years Proving to the Russian State That He's Alive — Originally for Esquire Russia
- Why the Creator of the DNA Fingerprint Is Destroying His Brainchild
- The Cursed Land: A Radically Pessimistic Scenario for Russia and the World — Wilson Center, Kennan Institute
- Decolonize This — Wilson Center, Kennan Institute
- Heal Me: On the Renaissance of Folk Healing in Russia — Wilson Center, Kennan Institute
- Black Hole: How the War in Ukraine Stirred the Trophy Art Market — Wilson Center, Kennan Institute
- Pronin's Seven Friends: How Russia Hunted the Thieves of Shishkin, Levitan and Korovin Paintings — Wilson Center, Kennan Institute
- AI: On the New Cold War, Whose Outcome Is Already Clear — Wilson Center, Kennan Institute
- How Russian Oligarchs, Arab Sheikhs and Chinese Spies Bought the World's Most Expensive da Vinci — GQ Russia
- How the Fake Art Market Works in Russia — GQ Russia
- Yelena Mizulina: The Creation of a Conservative — openDemocracy
- "There's No Such Thing as an Accidental Repost": Likes and Retweets Russia Has Used to Prosecute Activists — Quartz
- "There's No Such Thing as an Accidental Repost": How Russia Punishes People for Likes, Retweets, and Selfies — Meduza
- The Big Bang Theory: A Bolshoi Theatre Investigation — GQ Russia
- How to Enrage the Russian Orthodox Church — GQ Russia
- Businesses and "Roofs": Who Is Responsible for What — The New Times
- Partisan Ballad — The New Times
Talks, interviews & lectures
- On the protests over Russia at the Venice Biennale — Monocle Radio, The Briefing
- On the Ukraine peace talks in Geneva — Monocle Radio, The Briefing
- Public talk: "We Are Tired of Content" — Strelka Institute
- How to turn your media startup into a media empire — "Book" bookshop, Vladivostok
- Public interview by Arbuz Lectures — Waterstones Piccadilly, London
- "Everything We See Is a Norm" — Bird in Flight
- Journalism is a story that isn't about yourself — GITR
- Interview — L'Officiel Ukraine
- Interview on media monetization — LABA
- Interview with the ex-editor-in-chief of Snob — Realnoe Vremya
- Public talk: "Why You Should Never Launch Your Own Media" — TimeCodeFest
- Why big media are dying and self-made media are winning — Baikal Media Conference
- Lecture on storytelling techniques — Vyshka media school