The war censorship and unprecedented crackdown on press freedom in 2022 saw a mass exodus of Russian journalists and media organisations abroad. As a result, Russian independent journalism - painstaki...
Taisia Bekbulatova
founder and editor-in-chief Holod
Taisia Bekbulatova founded the on-line magazine Holod Media in 2019.
In 2012 she began working as a correspondent for the politics department at Kommersant. In 2017 she became a special correspondent for the online publication Meduza, where she worked until 2019. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 she has been labelled a "foreign agent" and forced to leave Russia to continue her work as a journalist.
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