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10 years of the long read: Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers (2024)

As the Long Read turns 10 we are raiding the archives to bring you a favourite piece from each year since 2014, with new introductions from the authors. This week from 2024: When Putin invaded, a historian in Kyiv saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was in danger. So he set out to save as much of it as he could. By Charlotte Higgins. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  Best of 2024: ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazz…

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  Best of 2024: Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internat…

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  Revisited: Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who s…

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  10 years of the long read: ‘All that we had is gone’: my lament for war-to…

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  A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than t…

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  Revisited: Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?

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  The scandal of food waste – and how we can stop it

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  ‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Pales…

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  10 years of the long read: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the …

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  A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair

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  ‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with …

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  10 years of the long read: The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s f…

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  The cement company that paid millions to Isis: was Lafarge complicit in cr…

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  Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González

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  10 years of the long read: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a …