Sarah Topol

Sarah Topol is an American freelance journalist. Topol’s work has been published in the Atlantic, Businessweek, BuzzFeed, GQ, Harper’s, the New Republic, the New York Times, and Politico, among others. Sarah won the 2012 Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism for her coverage of the civil war in Libya. Her writing was featured in Best American Travel Writing 2013. The IWMF funded Topol’s Spanish studies for two weeks in the Dominican Republic.

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February 5, 2019 | Sarah Topol

He Played by the Rules of Putin’s Russia, Until He Didn’t: The Story of a Murder

A portrait of Voronenkov at his grave in Ukraine last year.CreditCreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times When the Russian politician Denis Voronenkov was gunned down in Ukraine, officials blamed the Kremlin. The truth was…