The New Yorker - USA (2021-12-13)

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 39 For many Belarusians, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s distaste for politics made her an effectiv ...

40 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 she might be shot, but the car kept mov- ing, and she crossed into Lithuania. The next morni ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 41 tity to flourish. Between 1937 and 1940, most of the élite was wiped out, as Stalin- ist pu ...

42 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 English, in an experimental program that used American textbooks, and the language inspired ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 43 ferred to a job at the United Nations office in Geneva. Zaretskaya was cap- tivated by the ...

44 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 campaign viable, released a prerecorded video, in which he affirmed his candi- dacy. “For tw ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 45 ing inside you,” she told me. “Sviatlana, and many Belarusians, are now in ex­ actly this p ...

46 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 voted for Alexander Lukashenka? No- body gets hurt.” A couple of executives raised their han ...

and human rights. I rode with the dep- uty chairman, Valentin Stefanovich, as he went to meet a man whose brother had been kille ...

48 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 oligarchs have expressed interest in buy- ing. According to a former senior mem- ber of the ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 49 that police officers had been given gen­ erous bonuses to keep going. The in­ stitution is ...

50 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 PROFILES THE STRAIGHT MAN “Succession”’s Jeremy Strong wants to know what’s so funny. BY MIC ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 51 Adam McKay says of Strong’s portrayal of Kendall Roy, “He’s not playing it like a comedy. H ...

52 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 that, like, Chekhov is comedy?” No, I said, in the sense that it’s funny. “That’s exactly wh ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 53 Like “Succession” at its best, the scene is full of passive-aggressive parries. “Great,” Ke ...

54 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 the two of them and Sarah Snook, who plays their sister, Shiv. The family is in New Mexico f ...

as a security guard in order to finance a trip to L.A. Father and son stayed at the Oakwood apartments and paid a scammy manager ...

Jeremy Strongs. It wasn’t until the tele- vision renaissance of the past twenty years that the line between stars and character ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 57 ments in Brooklyn and Copenhagen, and during the pandemic they bought a summer house in Tis ...

58 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 ILLUSTRATION BY ALEX MERTO FICTION SOURCE PHOTOGRAPH FROM GETTY ...