"When Elena Kostyuchenko (Yaroslavl, Russia, 38 years old) arrived in Berlin after covering the beginning of the war in Ukraine and learning that she could never return to Russia because a price had been put on her head, she thought she was safe. However, a few months later, she was poisoned in Germany with an unknown substance that continues to wreak havoc on her body even today."
"Before that, in Russia, she worked for 17 years at Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper that has the terrible distinction of having the highest number of journalists murdered for doing their job and defending freedom of expression. It was precisely Anna Politkovskaya a reporter for the same publication who was murdered in 2006 who inspired Kostyuchenko's journalistic career. Now, far from her newsroom (closed by the Russian government in 2022, after the start of the war against Ukraine, and reopened in Riga, Latvia),"
Elena Kostyuchenko fled Russia after covering the start of the war in Ukraine when a bounty made her return impossible. A few months after arriving in Berlin she was poisoned in Germany with an unknown substance that still damages her health, though she can now work more than three hours a day. She spent 17 years at Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper marked by multiple murdered journalists, and cited Anna Politkovskaya as an inspiration. Novaya Gazeta was closed in Russia in 2022 and reopened in Riga. Kostyuchenko compiled reporting in I Love Russia and teaches courses at Duke University.
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