Paul Sonne

The dayslong outage in the most important part of Moscow crystallized fears that Putin would go further than Russians imagined to cut them off from the world & interrupt their lives as he brings the nation’s internet fully under Kremlin control. @PaulSonne nytimes.com/2026/03/31/wor…

@germanotes @antontroian "A man has to be vain," Tikhonov explained. "Otherwise, what sort of man is he?"

For those just discovering the joys of biathlon….. wsj.com/articles/SB100…?

Job Alert: Come join us on @nytimes's award-winning Russia team. nytco.com/careers/job-li…

There is no more standup person and journalist than Peter Finn, our friend and successor as Moscow bureau chief:

Two of the strongest parts of the @washingtonpost are its international and sports coverage. They have amazing must-read writers. If they are gutted by Bezos's publisher, it would be one of the most self-destructive acts in American journalism in years. Praying it's not true.

Amazing journalism: The Times obtained thousands of complaints by Russian citizens outlying brutal mistreatment of Russian soldiers by their own officers. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Our story about thousands of confidential complaints filed by Russian soldiers and their families nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The complaints were inadvertently posted online by the Russian government; @echofm_online @kmvir shared them with The Times. They show the brutality and coercion inside the Russian military. With @PaulSonne @Nat_Vasilyeva @AlinaLobzina & Milana Mazaeva nytimes.com/interactive/20…

"They are beating up the guys, zeroing out their own people and aren’t paying the bonuses they’re supposed to. They are throwing them into a pit."

"The military police officers are threatening to send me to the frontline and zero me out!"

IN THEIR OWN VOICES. Russian soldiers and their loved ones on abuse within the Russian military: "They were handcuffed undressed to a tree in January and held for several hours, some of them until the morning." nytimes.com/interactive/20…