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In a soft pleading voice, the white- He reassured E.U. allies haired woman in the video implores, “For the sake of my son, Pouya and raised flags on China. Bakhtiari, don’t vote.” She holds the But then there’s Russia. young man’s photo, and continues, “Because of the bullet they shot at his BY DAVID E. SANGER head and shattered his dreams, don’t ASH PONDERS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES LARRY MAYER/THE BILLINGS GAZETTE, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS AND STEVEN ERLANGER vote.” In a second video, another mother, sitting next to a gravestone, President Biden had three big tasks to echoed the same message: “At 30, my accomplish on his first foreign trip since son lies under a huge pile of dirt.” A third taking office: Convince the allies that woman described her 18-year-old son as America was back, and for good; gather full of hope, until Nov. 17, 2019, when a them in common cause against the ris- bullet pierced his ing threat of China; and establish some Low turnout heart. red lines for President Vladimir V. Putin was poised “Voting means of Russia, whom he called his “worthy betrayal,” she added. adversary.” to signal a Videos like these, He largely accomplished the first, rejection of circulating on Irani- though many European leaders still Friday’s elec- an activists’ social wonder whether his presidency may yet tion — or a media accounts with be just an intermezzo, sandwiched be- near-certain the hashtag that in tween the Trump era and the election of assurance Persian means #no- another America First leader uninter- for Ebrahim tovoting, appeared in ested in the 72-year-old Atlantic alli- Raisi. increasing numbers ance. in the weeks and He made inroads on the second, at months leading up to least in parts of Europe, where there has Iran’s presidential been enormous reluctance to think of election on Friday. Some of the videos China first as a threat — economically, were made by parents who say their technologically and militarily — and children were shot dead during antigov- IVAN PIERRE AGUIRRE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES second as an economic partner. ernment protests over the last few Wilting under heat and drought Summer hasn’t arrived, but already the Western United States is baking. Clockwise from top left: Temperatures exceeded 115 Mr. Biden expressed cautious opti- years. Others were by the parents of Fahrenheit in Phoenix on Tuesday; wildfires exploded in Montana; water levels plunged at Lake Mead; people in El Paso waited in sweltering heat for a bus. PAGE 6 mism about finding ways to reach a po- political prisoners who were executed lite accommodation with Mr. Putin. But by the regime in the 1980s, as well as by it is far from clear that any of the modest the families of those who died in the initiatives the two men described on Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed Wednesday, after a stiff, three-hour last year shortly after takeoff from summit meeting on the edge of Lake Ge- Tehran. (Iran’s military said it mistak- neva, will fundamentally change a bad enly shot down the plane). dynamic. What’s remarkable about the videos Striking foes worldwide Mr. Biden, one of his senior aides said is their audacity: that Iranians are after the meeting was over, “is perpetu- speaking up, seemingly without fear, one of the biggest law firms in the world, tem widely considered corrupt and sub- dreds of pages of case documents, ally optimistic” that Mr. Putin may, de- about boycotting an election in an au- flew into Moscow while his firm helped ordinate to the Kremlin. The other is a leaked records and more than 80 inter- spite a long history of efforts to under- thoritarian country whose leaders draft a tantalizing offer: Ms. symbol of an English legal system re- views with insiders, experts and wit- mine the Western alliance, see an ad- rarely tolerate open displays of dissent. Tyshchenko could be freed if she pro- spected around the world. Yet after Mr. nesses — reveals how London’s courts vantage in changing course. Iranians have had enough. And besides, Autocrats are exploiting vided information that could be used to Hardman returned to London, an Eng- are being used by autocrats to wage le- “He may be the only one,” the aide what’s the point of voting when the help his client in a sprawling web of liti- lish judge would accept into the case the gal warfare against people who have said. result is predetermined? the reach and stature gation in London. evidence obtained from the Moscow fled their countries after falling out of fa- This was Mr. Biden’s European come- The call for an election boycott of courts in Britain The twist is that Ms. Tyshchenko was prison. vor over politics or money. back tour, and he began in England, on seemed to be resonating: a recent poll one of the lawyers on the other side. To The episode is a vivid illustration of Four out of the past six years, litigants the rocky shores of Cornwall, playing all by the state-run Iranian Student Polling BY ANDREW HIGGINS, be freed, she would have to turn on her how the brutal politics of authoritarian from Russia and Kazakhstan have been the old crowd favorites — talking about Agency predicted that turnout could JANE BRADLEY, ISOBEL KOSHIW client. It was a ruthless exchange. But countries like Russia and Kazakhstan involved in more civil cases in England friendship, alliances, consultation, co- have been be as low as 40 percent — the AND FRANZ WILD the Moscow prison had been ruthless, have spilled into England’s legal sys- than have any other foreigners. Authori- mity and multilateralism. At every stop, lowest since the 1979 revolution. too, and she reluctantly agreed. In a lat- tem, with lawyers and private investiga- tarian governments, or related state en- he opened with the same three words: A low turnout in Friday’s election Olena Tyshchenko, a lawyer based in er interview, she said what seemed tors in London raking in huge fees and tities, are often pitted against tycoons “America is back.” FATHI, PAGE 8 Britain, was facing years in a crowded “most abnormal” was that lawyers op- engaging in questionable tactics in the who have fallen from favor and fled. Nei- He quoted poets, mostly Irish poets. It Russian prison cell when a chance at posing her in a trial in London could play service of autocratic foreign govern- ther side elicits much pity — but both was all warmly received by European The New York Times publishes opinion freedom came via an unexpected a role in her fate in Russia. “They are ex- ments. pay generous legal fees. leaders, who had been battered and from a wide range of perspectives in source. tremely aggressive,” she added. An investigation by The New York Filing litigation in London can bring bruised by President Donald J. Trump’s hopes of promoting constructive debate An English lawyer named Chris A Moscow prison. A London court- Times and the Bureau of Investigative legitimacy for claims by autocratic gov- attacks on them as weak, divided, self- about consequential questions. Hardman, a partner at Hogan Lovells, room. One is part of a Russian legal sys- Journalism — involving a review of hun- COURTS, PAGE 5 BIDEN, PAGE 6

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TV chef handles pressure Understand today. ing stir-fries and dumplings, he figures, HILLSBOROUGH, CALIF. Together. anyone can do just about anything. Mr. Yan doesn’t have an enormous so- Getthe story, firsthand. Hear vital voices, cial media following or a list of viral reci- After 4 decades, Martin Yan pes to his name. But his impact on the in their own words. Connect with your culinary sphere is immeasurable. In world and the people shaping it. faces a new audience in 1982, at age 33, Mr. Yan became one of teaching Chinese cuisine the first people of Asian descent to host Explore the full schedule. a cooking show in the United States. timesevents.nytimes.com BY PRIYA KRISHNA “Yan Can Cook,” on PBS, was a contem- porary of programs like “Julia Child & Live from his kitchen in the San Fran- More Company” and, later on, “Today’s cisco Bay Area, Martin Yan flashed a Gourmet,” starring Jacques Pépin. His smile, raised his cleaver and chanted show is still syndicated around the the catchphrase that the 150 or so people world, making it one of the longest-run- watching him online were clamoring to ning American cooking programs. hear: “If Yan can cook, so can you!” Mr. Yan, now 72, introduced legions of For Mr. Yan — who over a four-decade people to Chinese flavors and eventu- career has played the roles of television ally to other Asian cuisines. In the 1980s personality, cookbook author, restaura- and ’90s, he achieved what many non- teur and now YouTube host — this long- white cooks still struggle to do today — time slogan is more than just a shtick. to get Americans to view the cooking of AYA BRACKETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES It’s a summary of all he believes in. If a other countries as something they can Martin Yan at home in the San Francisco Bay Area. He became one of the first people of soft-spoken boy from , replicate at home. Asian descent to host a cooking show in the United States with “Yan Can Cook” in 1982. China, can make it big in America cook- CHEF, PAGE 2

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