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Alec Luhn

March 2021

  • A pine tree is snapped in half during an avalanche in Silverton, Colorado.

    Backcountry skiing sees resurgence – and the deadliest week for avalanches since 1910

    Fifteen people died in seven days as more people hit the slopes during pandemic

October 2020

  • Canadian Arctic Operations Advisors scale the decades-old wreckage of an airplane in temperatures below minus 50 degrees Celsius. They are on reconnaissance outside Resolute Bay on Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada.

    This land is your land
    Freezing cold war: militaries move in as Arctic ice retreats – photo essay

    US, Russian, Canadian and Chinese forces are taking an active role but the real threat is the rapidly changing polar climate

August 2017

  • Yury Dmitriyev

    Gulag grave hunter unearths uncomfortable truths in Russia

    Supporters of Yury Dmitriyev say he is being held as a political prisoner by a state that would rather forget Soviet repression

July 2017

  • Stalingrad 1942

    Cities in the spotlight
    Volgograd in the spotlight: is Stalingrad being used as propaganda once again?

    Volgograd is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the bloodiest battle of the second world war. Seen as a ‘great victory’ for Stalin’s army, is it still being used to elevate the Russian government above criticism?
  • People wearing face mask of Big Brother from 1984 at a protest rally for freedom on the internet in St Petersburg.

    Hackers undermine Russia's attempts to control the internet

    Authorities have blacklisted thousands of sites for political dissent since Putin’s re-election in 2012 – but activists have subverted the system
  • FILE PHOTO: Russian President Putin in Moscow and U.S. President Trump at a reception ceremony in Riyadh<br>FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a news conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on January 17, 2017 and U.S. President Donald Trump seen at a reception ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 20, 2017, as seen in this combination photo. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS and Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout/File photos via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THESE PICTURES WERE PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

    Trump and Putin to hold first meeting as hopes for cooperation grow dimmer

    Russia’s president may use Friday’s meeting in Hamburg to get the measure of his US counterpart – and consider possibilities for finding common ground

June 2017

  • Flowers are laid at the site where Boris Nemtsov was killed in central Moscow in 2015.

    Nemtsov family dismisses verdict as five found guilty of murder

  • Investigators in Kiev analyse the wreckage of the car bombing that killed Maksim Shapoval, a high-ranking military intelligence official.

    Ukrainian military intelligence officer killed by car bomb in Kiev

  • Sergey Kislyak

    Russia denies Sergey Kislyak is leaving US even as plans are made for send-off

  • A light show at the newly completed Zenit Arena.

    'Like prisoners of war': North Korean labour behind Russia 2018 World Cup

  • Who is Sergei Gorkov, the powerful Russian banker who met Jared Kushner?

  • 'Give them a pill': Putin accuses US of hysteria over election hacking inquiry

  • Paris climate agreement: World reacts as Trump pulls out of global accord – as it happened

  • Putin says Russian role in election hacking 'theoretically possible'

May 2017

  • sochi carnaval fest 2017

    Russians parade in blackface ahead of Cameroon-Germany match

  • Kotor on the Montenegrin coast.

    Montenegro finds itself at heart of tensions with Russia as it joins Nato

  • North Korea’s Man Gyong Bong 92 ferry

    Ferry service opens between North Korea and Russia

  • The headquarters of Yandex

    Ukraine blocks popular social networks as part of sanctions on Russia

  • LGBT activists detained in Moscow while petitioning against Chechen purge

  • Comey farewell letter emerges as Senate subpoenas Michael Flynn – as it happened

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