About this episode

The episode discusses the documentary 'My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow', focusing on press freedoms in Russia before the invasion of Ukraine.

My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow (2024) is Russian-language American documentary film written and directed by Julia Loktev (with co-director Anna Nemzer). The film describes the effort to maintain press freedoms in Putin’s Russia in the period leading up to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The documentary provides an intimate portrait of independent Russian journalists—mainly young women—who risk everything to pursue truth and accountability amidst escalat...

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan Hafetz

Guests: Rachel Denber, Anna Nemzer

Topics covered

• press freedom
• journalism
• Russia
• Ukraine
• documentary
• independent media

Keywords

• press freedoms
• independent journalists
• Putin
• documentary film
• Russia
• Ukraine
• truth
• accountability

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Russia, Ukraine

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