Weekender: Snipers, Scam Towns & Pavel Durov

By Megan Dean

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Brazen Weekender! I'm Megan, a producer at Project Brazen, and this is our weekly newsletter filled with recommendations for things to read, watch, and listen to. Today, I'm sharing a new podcast from The Economist on pig-butchering scams, a glossy TV hitman thriller starring Eddie Redmayne, as well as long reads on Greenland, Syria, and the case against Telegram founder Pavel Durov. Let's get into it!

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