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 · Best Of: Fighting for free press in Russia / ‘Fear and Fury’ · 7 Feb 2026 podcast

I mean, Brittany Griner had just gotten arrested.

But I was like, well, I'm not a famous basketball player.

You know, it's that thing you do where you logically try to explain to yourself why, you know,

you'll be okay.

And I really just, you know, I was staying in this hotel that was literally surrounded, like every time I walked out, I had to walk past this wall of riot police and helmets, you know, so I would just kind of keep my head down and go to wherever I needed to go to film.

And most of the time I was filming in private places, you know, people, the whole film takes place

Exactly.

The film takes place where we spend our lives, which is, you know, at work, at home, and on the way from one to the other.

And at other people's homes, it's really where people spend most of their lives.

So I met them where they were.

But where I felt most at risk, honestly, was every time I went to their workplace, especially in that first week.

Because

many of these newsrooms, you know, I mean, some of them were bugged.

There were journalists at some of these outlets that had been killed.

A lot of them were taking great risks.

There'd been searches.

And so especially during that first week of the full-scale war when there was so much pressure and

I was afraid every time I was there.

I thought anything can happen at any moment while they're sitting there trying to report on the news.

But then I sort of thought, you know what?

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