Julia Loktev

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558 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 7 Feb

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Fresh Air · Following independent journalists fighting for free press in Russia · 5 Feb 2026 podcast

And I think that so affects how people behave because they just, there's an intimacy to the film.

And that's what you see is it's not like a normal documentary with interviews and, you know.

No, absolutely.

It's kind of amazing before this crackdown what was possible.

There were a lot of reporters focusing on corruption, you know, government officials who were channeling huge amounts of money towards their mistress's yacht or things like this.

You know, it's all interconnected.

And they were writing about this out in the open and obviously writing about social issues and human rights out in the open.

And the fact that all of this was possible –

is kind of unimaginable now because, you know, at that point, Russia had initially invaded Ukraine in 2014.

Obviously, there's been a low-scale war happening there, but nothing of the kind of war that has been happening since February of 2022.

Bombing Kiev, tanks rolling in, the kind of war that we've been seeing was utterly, utterly unimaginable when I started filming.

And it was utterly unimaginable until the morning it happened.

And so we're watching for most of the film these characters and we know what happens.

We know Russia starts this full-scale invasion.

But they don't.

They don't know what's about to happen because what ends up happening is in that first week of the full-scale war,

all that independent journalism becomes impossible in Russia.

And all of these characters try to work to live another day, to just keep reporting the truth.

I mean, it's things like calling the war a war is illegal in Russia.

So I was there filming during the first week of that full-scale war, and every day they were trying to figure out how do we get to report tomorrow.

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