On today’s show, “The Russia Guy” welcomes Michael Schwirtz, a journalist from The New York Times staff who just won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. The award was granted for “a set of enthralling stories, reported at great risk, exposing the predations of Vladimir Putin’s regime.” The newspaper's winning work includes six articles and two documentary videos published in 2019. Now an investigative reporter with The New York Times, Michael has been with the newspaper for 14 years, having started in the Moscow bureau and then working at the Metro Desk, first covering the New York City Policy Department, then as part of Metro's investigative team, reporting about brutality and corruption in the New York State prison system and at Rikers Island in New York City. The four winning works that Michael authored or co-authored are the following: * “Russia Ordered a Killing That Made No Sense. Then the Assassin Started Talking.” * ”Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say” * “How Russia Meddles Abroad for Profit: Cash, Trolls and a Cult Leader” * “How a Poisoning in Bulgaria Exposed Russian Assassins in Europe” You can read them all here: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-new-york-times Follow Michael Schwirtz on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/mschwirtz Support this very podcast here: www.patreon.com/kevinrothrock Music and audio: Ну погоди, episode 14, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHd3sxpEbo&t=7s Олег Анофриев, Бременские музыканты, “Говорят, мы бяки-буки,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3wC7gkMDQ