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The New York Times Magazine
Russia’s Real Foreign Policy Goals

Since 2014, Russia has sought to project power throughout the world, from the annexation of Crimea and the war in Eastern Ukraine to its backing of the Assad regime in Syria to its meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But what does she really want? In a fascinating Pulitzer Center-supported longread for The New York Times Magazine, Sarah Topol provides a nuanced view into Vladimir Putin’s motives, as well as the limits of Russian power. 
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PBS NewsHour
Future of Food

Fish is becoming an important source of protein for people around the world, and companies are using technology to increase its availability. In the first part of “The Future of Food,” a Pulitzer Center-supported series for PBS NewsHour, grantees Mark Bittman, Megan Thompson, and Melanie Saltzman report on a Canadian company that believes a genetically-modified salmon may play a key role in meeting global food security demands.
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IndiaSpend
'Aforrestation' Fund Threatens India's Indigenous Communities

As part of meeting its obligations under the 2015 Paris Climate agreement, India is creating carbon sinks to compensate for new development on forested land. But these so-called “compensatory aforrestation” projects—monoculture plantations on land historically home to Indigenous people—come with surprising human costs. Chitrangada Choudhury reports in a Pulitzer Center-supported investigation for IndiaSpend.
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EVENTS
'This Little Land of Mines' World Premiere
July 18, 2019
Bethesda, Maryland
A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
July 22, 2019
Washington, D.C.

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