VOL .53 // NO .3

Inconvenient truths HOW SCIENTISTS ARE BEING SILENCED AROUND THE WORLD Featuring MURONG XUECUN, SIMON SINGH, DANA WILLBANKS, JP O’MALLEY and more

AUTUMN 2024

+ CHRISTY MOORE

Ireland’s celebrated folk singer recalls a national tragedy

+ MARINA LITVINENKO

The wife of the murdered defector on Putin and today’s Russia

+ FRANAK VIAČORKA

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s chief adviser on his jailed heroes in Belarus

+ BORIS AKUNIN

A new exclusive translation from the exiled Russian historical writer