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January 12, 2015

The New Yorker cover for January 12, 2015: “Limited Visibility,” by Jorge Colombo.

“Limited Visibility,” by Jorge Colombo.

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Julia Ioffe

Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a former oil tycoon who got rich in the post-Soviet legal vacuum. Julia Ioffe profiles Russia’s unlikely democracy activist.