My mother plaits camouflage nets for soldiers, and when we try to talk about what’s happening in Ukraine we end up shouting, says Elena Kostyuchenko, a Russian journalist
Two years after Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the crackdown on independent media and journalists in Russia has intensified, leading to the collapse of press freedom. Today, the vast majority of Russia’s independent journalists work in exile.
I follow a lot of Russian language accounts on social media. I first realised something had happened on Friday when I saw a Russian listings magazine post a crying emoji with a picture of the face of Navalny, Russia’s leading opposition figure. This was odd. Their posts were usually apolitical – recently about Rothko in Paris, Timothée Chalamet in Wonka and Prince Charles’s health. News of Alexei Navalny’s death hit the Russian-speaking online world moments before it broke across international m
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