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The Hottest Border
Drones, Checkpoints, Acoustic Warfare: How Estonia’s Russia problem is getting worse.
Russian river shore from the port of Narva-Jõesuu, on the Narva River. Narva-Jõesuu, Estonia, March 2025.
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Issue: Summer 2025 / Volume 101/2
Published: November 13, 2025
Marzio G. Mian is an award-winning Italian author and correspondent at large covering cultural, social, and geopolitical issues. A former deputy editor in chief for Corriere della Sera, he is now a special contributor for Internazionale, Vanity Fair Italy, Harper’s Magazine, Reportagen, and the Guardian...
Elettra Pauletto is a writer and a translator of French and Italian literature. She divides her time between Italy and western Massachusetts. Her next translated book, Volga Blues: A Journey into the Heart of Russia, by Marzio Mian, is forthcoming (Norton, 2026).
Alessandro Cosmelli is an award-winning photographer who has published five monographs, including Oltrenero (Contrasto, 2009) and Brooklyn Buzz (Damiani, 2012), which were both recognized by Pictures of the Year International as being among the best photography books of the year.