Samantha Berkhead
Senior Editor at The Moscow Times
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3 weeks ago |
themoscowtimes.com | Samantha Berkhead
LONDON — Alla Gutnikova’s story reflects Russia’s descent into repression in recent years. As a university student, she became politically active while protesting in support of jailed journalist Ivan Golunov and protesters jailed for rallying for free elections in the summer of 2019.
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Nov 21, 2024 |
themoscowtimes.com | Samantha Berkhead
Alsu Kurmasheva, a longtime journalist for the U.S.-funded RFE/RL news outlet’s Tatar-Bashkir service, became the second U.S. journalist to be jailed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when she was detained in October 2023. The dual U.S.-Russian citizen, who lives in Prague, was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison in July on charges of spreading “false information” about the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine that her family and employer denied. Just weeks later on Aug.
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Nov 12, 2024 |
themoscowtimes.com | Samantha Berkhead
While Russia was amassing troops and tanks along the Ukrainian border in the spring of 2021, film and theatre director Vladlena Sandu was in the Chechen capital of Grozny to film a documentary based on her memories of growing up during the Chechen Wars.Two decades after it was flattened by Russian bombs during Chechnya’s wars for independence from Moscow, Grozny has been rebuilt with Kremlin money and is ruled with an iron fist by Ramzan Kadyrov.
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Aug 2, 2024 |
themoscowtimes.com | Samantha Berkhead
Sasha Skochilenko did not know what was happening as she was taken from her St. Petersburg prison cell to Moscow, where men in balaclavas escorted her onto a plane with several other prisoners. “We were accompanied by a dozen people in balaclavas,” said the 33-year-old St. Petersburg artist, who was freed Thursday from a seven-year prison sentence for replacing supermarket price tags with anti-war messages. “They didn’t let us [prisoners] sit together on the bus.
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Jun 21, 2024 |
themoscowtimes.com | Samantha Berkhead
LINZ, Austria — For Nadya Tolokonnikova, rage has always been an antidote to her despair at the Kremlin’s repressions. “When something terrible happens, I’m free to choose — either I lay low in tears, or I rage. And through my rage, the better world starts to manifest,” the founder of the Pussy Riot feminist protest art collective says.
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Ksenia Karelina, a U.S.-Russian citizen who was sentenced to 12 yrs in prison, for a small donation to a Ukrainian humanitarian NGO, has been released in a prisoner swap, WSJ reports https://t.co/sYoP5WJXUg
We noticed https://t.co/C05IyZVCuC
“Kirill is ambitious; he really loves and values himself. He always emphasizes his proximity to the president’s family. You can’t approach him easily,” a source who has known Dmitriev for a long time told MT. https://t.co/7WMyD5B0H5
RT @faridaily_: wow Kremlin propaganda signature narrative is now applied to the US but with a twist. they used to say it was the US who pa…
