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☆ Russian Journalist Warns No Country Safe From Fascism After Ukraine War
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A Russian dissident journalist who suffered a suspected poison attack last year says no country is safe from fascism. "I honestly believe no country is immune from fascism," Elena Kostyuchenko told Insider. Her book, she told Insider, was an effort to track how the seeds of fascism in Russia flourished into a brutal war. Be hysterical if you see your country is going into the darkness," Kostyuchenko told Insider. And it means that a next war will follow and a next war will follow and it will be a nightmare"

Persons: Elena Kostyuchenko, —, Kostyuchenko, Russia didn't, Vladimir Putin's Organizations: Service, Novaya Gazeta, Novaya, Russia, International Institute for Democracy, Electoral Locations: Russian, Russia, Ukraine, Mariupol, Germany, Kyiv, America

☆ A Russian dissident journalist who is recovering from a suspected poisoning attack explains why Russia must lose in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Her new book, "I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country" is out this week. The Russian dissident journalist and gay rights advocate has been telling her country's untold stories since she was a teenager. So, I went back to Ukraine to work and I was working there for five weeks before I left Ukraine. I don't really remember the first four weeks after I left Ukraine. Kostyuchenko left Russia to report on Ukraine soon after the war started.

Persons: Elena Kostyuchenko, Kostyuchenko, —, Russia, Alexander Welscher, Putin, They're, KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV Organizations: Russia, Service, Novaya Gazeta, Novaya, Getty Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Kostyuchenko, Beslan, Ukrainian, Munich, Germany, Russia, Novaya, Soviet, Soviet Union, AFP

BERLIN, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Despite the murders of four of her colleagues for their reporting, Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko never considered she had been poisoned when she fell ill on a train to Berlin. But when I found myself in Europe I totally forgot all these security measures." Her symptoms started with disorientation and stomach ache on the train journey from Munich to Berlin and persisted for several weeks. A former Chechen rebel died in Berlin in what a German court said was a Russian state assassination. She was one of three Russian independent woman journalists who were apparently poisoned while abroad in a similar period.

Persons: Elena Kostyuchenko, Kostyuchenko, Vladimir Putin, Sergei Skripal, Sergei Litvinenko, Thomas Escritt, Mike Harrison Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Berlin, Russia, Europe, Munich, Chechen, Ukraine

CNN —Russian dissident journalist Elena Kostyuchenko has revealed how she was traveling to Berlin by train last autumn when she was abruptly taken ill, in a case that has led German authorities to investigate a suspected poisoning attempt. Kostyuchenko was living in exile at the time in the German capital after being warned of Russian plans to assassinate her. In March 2022, she said she was tipped off by a source in Ukrainian military reconnaissance about Russian plans to assassinate her. Kostyuchenko eventually fled to Germany, where she rented an apartment in Berlin and began working for Meduza on September 29. Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny also fell ill on a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow in 2020.

Persons: Elena Kostyuchenko, Kostyuchenko, Sebastian Büchner, ” Kostyuchenko, “, ”, Zelimkhan, Sergei Skripal, Yulia, Theresa May, Alexei Navalny Organizations: CNN, Russian, Novaya Gazeta, Meduza, UK Locations: Russian, Berlin, Munich, Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Iran, Meduza, Ukrainian, Chechen, English, Salisbury, Siberian, Tomsk, Moscow

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