We spoke to the American journalist Samantha Berkhead, the editor-in-chief of the Moscow Times English language service after her news outlet was outlawed as “undesirable” in Russia.
Barents Observer journalist Olesia Krivtsova, who fled prosecution in Arkhangelsk last year, is one of several exile-Russians recently to discover that the repressive authorities have cancelled their main ID document.
Vyacheslav Gorodetsky says the six security service officers that raided his newspaper office in downtown Murmansk confiscated computers and telephones and threatened to shoot him. But the editor of the Arktichesky Obozrevatel (Arctic Observer) has no plans to leave the north Russian city.
Ivan Pavlov believes in a new and beautiful Russia and says he will be "on the first flight home" as soon as the Putin regime falls. "We are optimists. Putin is not forever," the well-known human rights lawyer in exile says.
"I consider this label repressive. But I can say for sure that we will continue to work, whatever they call us," says Daria Poryadina, editor of the exile-Russian news outlet SOTA.
The Mayor of the Norwegian border town located few kilometers from Russia highlighted unity against totalitarianism and fight for freedom in his speech on Liberation and Veterans Day.
41-year-old video journalist Sergei Karelin was arrested on Friday, accused of extremism, allegedly because he had cooperated with Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation FBK.
Almost 75 percent of the votes cast in the border town of Kirkenes were for Vladimir Putin, figures from the Russian Election Commission show. In Barentsburg, Svalbard, the number reached 69 percent.
"I want to express my sympathy and support to the Russians that continue to dare to work for a different and better Russia," says Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide.
"Anyone can become a target regardless of location," says Novaya Gazeta Europa editor Kirill Martynov after Navalny ally Leonid Volkov Tuesday evening was attacked with a hammer and tear gas outside his home in Lithuania.
On March 6 a city court in Moscow sentenced RusNews journalist Roman Ivanov to seven years in prison for violating the law on fake news about the Russian army.
The killing of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny prompted shock and grief among his supporters. Consul General Nikolai Konygin, however, got Navalny’s portrait out of sight when he one day before the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine hailed the country's "heroes".
We knew it was a historic moment, says journalist Elizaveta Vereykina as she in January 2021 reported from the Berlin to Moscow flight in Aleksei Navalny's final hours in freedom.
The agreement with the "Defenders of the Fatherland" foundation was signed by Rector Elena Kudryashova with the Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NARFU) in Arkhangelsk.