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Coda Story puts a team of journalists on one crisis at a time and stays with it, providing unique depth, continuity and understanding to events that shape our world. Coda is for those who believe that understanding a crisis is essential to addressing it and those who want to know what happens after the spotlight moves on. In music a Coda is a distinctive passage, usually towards the end, which defines the entire composition. In journalism, Coda is a stand-out voice that helps to define a crisis.
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Search ArticlesMark Sigetty Bøje
Mark Sigetty Bøje is a Danish journalist based in Aarhus. He covers business, culture and international affairs, with a focus on how global events are experienced at a local level.
Matthew Janney, Author at Coda Story
Matthew Janney is a journalist based in London who writes about literature, culture and the post-Soviet space. He is a regular contributor to the FT and his work has also appeared in the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, and Prospect Magazine among others.
Exiled at Midnight
On the night of January 16, 2024, Egana Djabbarova was awoken by her wife and told that she needed to leave the country immediately. Djabbarova, her wife said, had been denounced by pro-war activists and framed as an enemy of the country. She had recently published her novel, “My Dreadful Body,” with a small, indie press that had been praised by mainstream critics, unexpectedly propelling her into the public eye.
How much longer will Orbán be Putin and Trump’s man in Brussels?
Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister since 2010, faces an election dogfight. Behind in the polls, he has been effectively endorsed by both the Kremlin and the White House, and a host of conservative world leaders. As wars in Iran and Ukraine exacerbate the fissures that have weakened NATO, as well as the U.S.’s relationship with the European Union, this is an election that is being followed with bated breath in Washington, Moscow, Kyiv and Brussels.
The Alibi Machine - Coda Story
THE RECKONING PROJECT AND CODA STORY PRESENT Russian officials and propagandists built cover stories for war crimes before those crimes were committed. Lawyers call this an information alibi. And they think it’s prosecutable.
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the alibi machine: the Pattern Two days after the attack on the maternity ward, new warnings appear on Russian social media channels. The focus this time: Mariupol’s Drama Theatre. Hundreds of Ukrainians are sheltering there from Russian airstrikes. At 10 a.m. on March 16, 2022, the theatre is hit by Russian airstrikes. Initial estimates suggest hundreds of people are killed.
The Alibi Machine: The Crime
March 2022 Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol is under siege. 400,000 civilians are trapped as the Russian Army and its local allies, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic People’s Militia, blockade the city. You might remember this woman, who in the first days after the maternity ward attack appeared on front pages of the media worldwide. Over the following weeks senior officials, state-backed TV channels and news agencies, war reporters and bloggers echo a version of the same story.
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the alibi machine: the Verdict For more information about Information Alibis, see the “Manufacturing Impunity” report Special thanks to: Anastasiia Vorobiova, Scott Martin and Nadiia Vaskivska from Global Rights Compliance Peter Pomerantsev and the Reckoning Project team Alexey Kovalev Michael Weiss Vasily Gatov Production: Sophiko Vasadze, Becky Lipscombe and Alexandra Tyan Graphic design: Teona Tsintsadze Animation: Anna Jibladze Illustrations: Teona Tsintsadze and Anna Jibladze
Scott Martin, International Lawyer at Global Rights Compliance
the alibi machine: the case for the Prosecution Scott Martin: There’s nothing wrong in general with propaganda, disinformation, information operations — they’re a common form of any military operation.