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Cake day: February 3rd, 2025

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  • The correspondents posed as reporters from state-controlled media outlets. Independent journalism has essentially been outlawed in Russia since the state of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with most of those still working forced into exile.

    By posing as state-controlled journalists still in the country, the reporters hoped their interviewees would feel more comfortable sharing sensitive information with them.

    Does this put the kids at risk of retaliation? I suppose they’re counting on there being so many teens doing this that they can’t narrow it down, but this approach doesn’t seem very responsible…