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Joshua Yaffa is a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker. His first book is Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia.\n\n\u201cEspecially in a place like Russia, where there\u2019s a lot of sensitivity around what people might tell you\u2014when they do open up to you, there\u2019s a lot of trust there. And you better not abuse it or mishandle it, because you could put people in danger. Just being a decent person, and demonstrating that decency, goes a long way.\u201d\n\nThanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@yaffaesque\njoshuayaffa.com\n[19:45] "The Search for Petr Khokhlov" (New York Times Magazine \u2022 Jan 2015)\n[22:45] Longform Podcast #339: Michael Lewis\n[26:15] "Ukraine's Unlikely President, Promising New Style of Politics, Gets a Tase of Trump's Swamp" (New Yorker \u2022 Oct 2019)\n[30:15] "The Double Sting" (New Yorker \u2022 Jul 2015)\n[37:45] "Russia's House of Shadows" (New Yorker \u2022 Oct 2017)\n[37:45] "A Village Doctor's Literary Calling" (New Yorker \u2022 May 2019)\n[38:00] Citizen K (Alex Gibney)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices