Glikman: ‘It pains me deeply to see what’s happening in Ukraine and Russia’ / On The Record

Published on February 20, 2025

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Ekaterina Glikman, deputy editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, is the latest guest on On the Record. In the latest episode, she talks about the challenges of working as a journalist in exile in Switzerland, and how the new media outlet covers events in Ukraine and Russia.
After the war in Ukraine began, several journalists from Novaya Gazeta stayed in Russia, continuing their work under censorship and, remarkably, still managing to accomplish a great deal despite the restrictions. Others left the country and started the media outlet in exile, Novaya Gazeta Europe.

Glikman lives in Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland with her Swiss husband, while most of her colleagues are based in Latvia. She has an unusual passion – studying weevils. She travels to the jungles of Thailand to catch the small beetles using a special net with a telescopic handle. She has even named three newly discovered species after her former Novaya Gazeta colleagues – Muradov, Rost, and Surukhanov.

Novaya Gazeta Europe has correspondents in Ukrainian regions occupied by Russian forces, and in Kyiv and Russia. “Our goal is to document everything so that crimes are not erased and so they don’t just disappear as if they never happened,” says Glikman.
How do journalists who were forced to leave their countries survive financially, and how do they differ from journalists who moved abroad for economic or other reasons? How do reporters interview former Ukrainian prisoners of war about the torture and abuse they suffered at the hands of Russian forces? And how did Schaffhausen bid farewell to Alexei Navalny?

00:00:00 Teaser,
00:00:40 Ekaterina Glikman shows to Elena Servettaz the Alexey Navalny’s Fontaine
00:01:55 What is “Novaya Gazeta.Europe”
00:02:47 Where is Dmitri Muratov?
00:04:00 “We had no place to live”
00:04:44 Latvia was the fastest and most responsive country
00:05:52 “I was afraid we'd become a sort of expat media”
00:07:06 “Journalism no longer exists in Russia”
00:08:06 What happens inside a country when it's at war?
00:10:05 How to get information from occupied territories?
00:13:03 About people giving up their Russian identity after the start of the war in Ukraine?
00:13:43 “I love Russia very much”
00:16:30 About weevils
00:18:27 A call to Dimitri Muratov on his birthday
00:19:44 To Muratov!
00:20:08 About Vladimir Putin
00:21:36 About Anna Politkovskaya
00:25:24 About «normal» work
00:25:54 Will it be possible to come back to Russia one day?

#navalny #putin #ukrainewar

Video by: Elena Servettaz and Carlo Pisani
Original idea OnTheRecord: Elena Servettaz

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