On Wednesday, it did a Zoom call with Yana Pashiva.

She's a journalist in Moscow, and she happens to be a former intern for Slate.

How are you?

Are you doing okay?

I don't know.

I'm really frustrated.

Every day, you have a new bunch of news about companies leaving, and life is getting

like less and less comfortable, and we can't withdraw dollars anymore, and our currency

is just turning into papers.

People are leaving the country, and other people are thinking, should we also leave?

Yeah, so it's just anxious.

Yana found out about the invasion of Ukraine when she woke up to a bunch of early morning

text messages from friends overseas.

I went immediately on social media.

My whole Facebook was full of posts of people who were frustrated, depressed, they were

crying, and expressing their disappointment, helplessness.

Then I went on media platforms, and there were those horrible footages of some buildings

and bombed fires, and shelling.

I wanted Yana to give me a sense of what it's like to try to get on the internet in

Russia now, and get information, what you can see, and what you can't.

How have you been able to keep up with what's happening?

Where do you check to get your news, and how much have you noticed the change in the

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