Liza Bogutskaya’s outspokenness against what she sees as Russia’s illegal occupation of Crimea has made her a favorite of pro-Ukrainians online and an enemy of the Russian state administering Crimea.
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This year, Sampsonia Way introduced The Freedom Chats, a new series that features interviews with journalists and other international media personalities who face censorship and repression in their home countries. Join us in reviewing the most viewed Freedom Chats from 2014.
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Sergei Misyura, whose twitter account has over 15,000 followers, spent four months with the 72nd Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, fighting in the ‘Anti-Terrorist Operation’ (ATO) in Luhansk region.
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Previously filled with interesting or amusing content, with only occasional forays into the world of politics, now Sedelnikov’s blog is entirely devoted to covering the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
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Sixty world leaders and dignitaries attended Sunday’s solidarity rally in Paris, leaping at the occasion to be seen as “staunch defenders” of the press, even while many of them are guilty of suppressing free speech themselves.
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These days, Crimean photoblogger Natalya Golovan is more likely to document a military ceremony or a celebratory fireworks display than the cats she photographed before.
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The information war and the real one have almost become synonymous for a Ukrainian Twitter blogger from Slovyansk, and he is sick of both.
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Daria Karpenko says she is determined to stay in Crimea and report the realities of life on the ground, but she fears for her country and her family.
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Political discussions on the Russian-speaking Internet tend to be dominated by male voices. Politichanka, however is an exception to this general trend.
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Until the 1990s, Olga Sedakova’s books were not available in Russia because they failed to align with prescribed official aesthetics. Sampsonia Way presents an excerpt from Sedakova’s forthcoming book, In Praise of Poetry.
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