I lost my job for telling the truth about Ukraine
The last days of Russia’s leading independent newspaper
By Elena Kostyuchenko
The night the war started, I was having really intense dreams. At one point, I went to the kitchen to have a cigarette. The friend I’d been staying with told me that they were bombing Kyiv. I asked her, “Who?!”
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