Julia Loktev
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558 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 7 Feb
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get to report tomorrow.
And there were all these restrictions being put on them, like the Russian communications authority said they had to only report what is confirmed by the Ministry of Defense.
And they would find all these ways around it, you know, like they would be showing
An apartment building bombed in Ukraine.
And then they would say, you know, after they would say, we are obligated to say that the Russian Ministry of Defense says it is only bombing military targets when clearly we have just been shown that they are bombing Ukraine.
an apartment building, not a military target.
And then they would find all these other ways to try to, again, just to live to another day to be able to report the truth to Russians.
And they came out with a statement against the war.
All of them were extremely against this and horrified.
But they kept getting more and more threats.
Eventually, all these media would get shut down.
And they were facing this choice of literally, do we go to work tomorrow?
Or do we go to the airport?
And they decided to go to the airport because the logic went, if they keep working, they really risked being thrown in jail.
And if you're in jail, you're not much use to anyone as a journalist.
You can't report from jail.
And so they made the choice to leave so they could keep reporting.
It's interesting because I think I thought about my own safety more when I first started coming to Russia.
And then during that first week of the full-scale invasion, I became monomaniacal.
The only thing I could think of was my footage and getting it out and making sure I was capturing things and making sure I was filming.
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