Tanya Lukyanova

New York

Senior Video Producer at Bloomberg Industry Group

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Articles

Gazans Confront Hamas Amid Historic Uprising

6 days ago | thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova

“The scum have arrived in Beit Lahia,” says the man behind the camera as he zooms in on the crowd of demonstrators. Thousands had poured into the streets of northern Gaza on Wednesday to protest Hamas’s rule—the latest outburst in a historic wave of demonstrations that engulfed the Strip last month.
EXCLUSIVE: The Family of a Murdered Gaza Protester Speaks Out

3 weeks ago | thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova

EXCLUSIVE: The Family of a Murdered Gaza Protester Speaks OutAfter they tortured him and mutilated his body, they dropped him off a rooftop with a note pinned to his clothes: ‘This is the price for all who criticize Hamas.’On March 29, in a neighborhood called Tel al-Hawa in southern Gaza City, Hamas brutally murdered 22-year-old Uday Nasser Saadi al-Rabbay, his family said. After Uday had been tortured and mutilated, his body was thrown off a tall building. His crime?
EXCLUSIVE: The Family of a Murdered Gaza Protester Speaks Out.

3 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Tanya Lukyanova

On March 29, in a neighborhood called Tel al-Hawa in southern Gaza City, Hamas brutally murdered 22-year-old Uday Nasser Saadi al-Rabbay, his family said. After Uday had been tortured and mutilated, his body was thrown off a tall building. His crime? He had spoken out—loudly and publicly—against the terrorists who rule Gaza with an iron grip.
Inside the Largest Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza’s Recent History

3 weeks ago | thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova

Right now, Gaza is witnessing the largest protest against Hamas since October 7, 2023. For the third straight day, Palestinians are pouring into the streets across the Gaza Strip, openly defying the militant group they blame for the devastating 17-month-long war with Israel. Over the course of its rule, Hamas has not tolerated dissent, and has been known …
WATCH: They Fled Iran Fearing Death. Then the U.S. Deported Them to Panama.

1 month ago | thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova

In Iran, the act of converting from Islam to any other religion is punishable by death. In America, one of the strongest historical rationales for immigrants seeking asylum has been the fear of religious persecution. Yet on February 9, when Artemis Ghasemzadeh, an Iranian Christian convert, crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, after an arduous trip that took her from Iran to Dubai to South Korea and finally Mexico, she said she was never asked about her reasons for seeking asylum.
WATCH: Who Killed the Hundreds in Syria—and Why?

1 month ago | thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova

Syria has just witnessed its deadliest bloodshed since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad last December. In just four days, between March 6 and 10, more than 800 people were killed in the coastal provinces of Tartus and Latakia, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). But who killed them, and why? As graphic videos of the atrocities flooded social media, so did misinformation.
When War Crashed Through the Window

1 month ago | thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova

On Tuesday morning, around 6:00 a.m., Andrei, who lives in the Moscow suburbs, awoke to the sound of war crashing through his window. First, he heard what sounded like a shot—that was the Russian air defense system kicking in. The same sound rang out again. Then a whistling dive, the unmistakable sound of something mechanical, something deliberate, slicing through the sky. The explosion came next. A drone had hit his home.
How the U.S. Government Controls the Ukrainian Media

2 months ago | thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova

How the U.S. Government Controls the Ukrainian MediaIn Ukraine, forced conscription has become a scandal. But the U.S.-funded media outlets won’t cover it. The camera was rolling when chaos erupted. It was January 21, 2024, and an independent Ukrainian journalist named Ostap Stakhiv was livestreaming a call with Vasyl Pleskach, a man claiming he was being illegally detained by Ukraine’s infamous military conscription unit, the TCC.
I Went Grocery Shopping in Moscow

Jan 23, 2025 | thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova

MOSCOW, Russia — Three days into his second term, President Donald Trump threatened to impose “high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States” if Moscow doesn’t reach an agreement to end the war in Ukraine “soon.”But since the start of the war in February 2022, the West had placed so many sanctions on …
What Do Russians Think of the War?

Jan 16, 2025 | thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova

MOSCOW, Russia — Hardly anyone calls the war by any other name anymore. That was the first impression I got in talking to people in my hometown during a recent visit. TV news—and military recruiting posters plastered all over the city—still diligently use the state-mandated euphemism “special military operation,” a remnant of the early days of the Ukraine invasion. But nearly three years in, Russians know better.