Inside Russia’s Crackdown on Dissent: An Update

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran. Days after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin made it a crime to oppose the war in public. Since then, it has waged a relentless campaign of repression, putting Russian citizens in jail for offenses as small as holding a poster or sharing a news article on social media. Valerie Hopkins, an international correspondent for The Times, tells the story of Olesya Krivtsova, a 19-year-old student who faces up to 10 years in prison after posting on social media, and explains why the Russian government is so determined to silence those like her. Guest: Valerie Hopkins, an international correspondent for The New York Times, covering Russia and the war in Ukraine.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Sabrina. This week the Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year
0:06.6	and hearing what's happened since they first ran. Today we revisit our conversation with
0:12.2	Valerie Hopkins about one woman in Russia who spoke out
0:16.4	against the war in Ukraine.
0:19.1	It's Wednesday, December 27th.
0:21.3	Valerie, tell me December 27th.
0:28.0	Valerie, tell me about this reporting you've been doing about dissent in Russia. Who are these Russians who are voicing their opposition to the war despite these really dire repercussions.
0:37.2	You know, they're actually all really different people.
0:41.2	You might think there's like a profile, but there are sort of middle-aged
0:45.2	guys in the provinces, young, hip, highly educated college students. There's a lot.
0:53.4	But one of the cases that really stuck out to me was a teenager named Alicia Kritsova.
1:01.4	She lives in a town outside of Arangels very close to the Arctic Circle and for our first
1:08.2	interview actually I connected over a call on the messaging app,
1:12.8	telegram.
1:14.0	So, Alicia is 19.
1:19.4	She's a student at University in our Hongelks
1:22.3	studying advertising in public relations.
1:25.0	She's a vegan and a feminist.
1:27.0	I'm not necessarily like that
1:30.0	she didn't really consider herself to be an activist.
1:39.0	But when the war in Ukraine started. Like many young Russians, she talked to her family and friends about it, and most of them agreed
1:51.4	with her that the war was wrong.
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