Posts by Alexey Kovalev:
Major scoop exposing scores of Russian intelligence officers prompts intense soul-searching in Russian media community
“Hello, I’m Alexey from Moscow, Russia, and I am an investigative journalist.” I’ve uttered that phrase several dozen times during our usual introductions routine during eight weeks of travel around the United States. But from now on, I’m going to have to open with a...Immigration debate in the United States: a hopeless quagmire
Immigration in the United States is a hotly debated issue right now and is slated to be a crucial point in the upcoming midterm elections, as the WPI fellows have witnessed on our American tour. We need to do something, say both the left and the right of various...Russian state media scramble for a coherent narrative after a plane is shot down by a Syrian missile
On September 17, a Russian Air Force Il-20 plane was shot down over Syria. All 14 members of the crew were killed. The surface-to-air missile that hit it was Russian-made and supplied to the Syrian Army’s air defense forces by its Russian allies. In other words, it...