Sky’s Diana Magnay on reporting from Putin’s Russia
This Is Why
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🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
But as foreign companies withdraw and many Russian journalists flee the country, it's getting harder to find out what’s going on inside one of the world's most powerful nations.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky’s Moscow correspondent, Diana Magnay, to discuss how Russia has changed in the decade since she first began reporting there, and what it’s like to work as a journalist inside an increasingly isolated authoritarian state.
Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 0:57.1 | to find out how. Welcome to the Sky News Daily. I'm Neil Patterson. Today, once again, we are |
| 1:04.5 | discussing Russia. Now, the Russia files amongst you may well have noticed that last week, President |
| 1:09.9 | Putin said |
| 1:10.8 | that any further movement of troops, mobilization of troops, would depend on what his war aims |
| 1:17.4 | are. |
| 1:21.3 | He also talked about whether or not Russia would once again try to take Kiev. |
| 1:27.4 | His response on that topic, Only I can answer this myself. |
| 1:33.8 | I clearly hope that that is not the case, but I would suggest that if you are to understand Russia |
| 1:38.9 | and to understand Putin, then you probably have to spend some time there. So thankfully, that is exactly |
| 1:43.7 | what our guest has |
| 1:44.8 | done. Diana Magni started reporting from Russia at the end of 2013, just of course before Russia |
| 1:50.2 | and its Crimea, before becoming Skies, Russia correspondent full-time in 2018. In the last decade, |
| 1:56.9 | well, she has seen plenty of sites and plenty of changes in Russia. She's in the UK at the moment and here in the Sky News Daily studio. |
| 2:03.8 | Diana, it is lovely for once to actually be able to say hello to you in person |
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