Serhiy's story: How Russia silenced a young man's voice
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Serhiy Gulko made a difficult choice to finish his medical degree at Moscow State University after Russia attacked his homeland, Ukraine. Two years later, he was arrested for speaking out against the war on social media. Serhiy tells us about his experience in detention and whether ordinary Russians support the war.
And Oleg Kozlovsky, an Amnesty International Russian researcher, tells us about the extreme measures taken to repress protest in the country.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko. The episode was produced by Clare Williamson with Arsenii Sokolov, Bella Saltiel and Nick Sturdee. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it's 860 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:09.4 | In that time, around 20,000 Russian people have been arrested for protesting against what their |
| 0:16.7 | country is doing in Ukraine and to Ukrainian people. |
| 0:20.6 | And if you don't like what Russia is doing in Ukraine and if you are in Russia |
| 0:24.4 | there's a multitude of ways in which the Kremlin can send you behind bars. |
| 0:29.4 | You can be accused of spreading false information about the Russian army and false information is pretty much anything |
| 0:37.8 | the Kremlin doesn't like, including well documented instances of civilians being killed or civilian infrastructure being targeted or medics first responders. |
| 0:49.0 | You can also be accused of discrediting the Russian army and it's so easy to discredit it in Russia if you |
| 0:55.7 | wear for example clothes in the blue and yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag or if you hold up just a sheet of paper saying no war that's |
| 1:07.4 | discrediting the Russian army in the eyes of the Russian law. |
| 1:10.1 | And we have covered a number of those cases here on the podcast. |
| 1:12.8 | We heard from the girlfriend of the artist Sasha Scotelenko, jailed under Russia's fake news law. |
| 1:17.6 | Do you remember, she replaced the price tag on various grocery items in a supermarket with anti-war messages and of course the |
| 1:25.1 | Russian journalist poisoned for literally doing her job for covering the war. |
| 1:29.8 | And that's what we're discussing today. |
| 1:32.0 | How Russia is stamping out all forms of dissent |
| 1:36.2 | over its war against Ukraine. |
| 1:38.1 | We'll be talking with a young Ukrainian student |
| 1:40.4 | who had to flee Moscow University |
| 1:41.8 | over his anti-war social media posts and also a Russian human rights observer who is now living in exile. |
| 1:49.0 | This is Ukraine Cast. |
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