Zhanna AGALAKOVA
Zhanna Agalakova is a Russian journalist, special correspondent and television news presenter who resigned from the state-run Channel One broadcaster in protest of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the time of her resignation, she was the channel’s correspondent in Paris. After leaving Channel One, Agalakova said she believed Russian television was being used to spread Kremlin propaganda and that she wanted Russians to stop allowing themselves to be “zombified” by propaganda. In 2002 she was nominated for the TEFI Award, a Russian television award similar to the Emmys. She was awarded the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” in 2006 and received the Order of Friendship in 2019. She returned her state awards to the Kremlin in September 2022.
Linor GORALIK
Linor Goralik is an award-winning poet, prose author, critic, comics artist, and journalist. She is a vocal opponent of Vladimir Putin’s regime and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Following the invasion, she launched Resistance and Opposition Arts Review (ROAR), an online magazine publishing anti-war, anti-Kremlin voices, and Novosti-26, a news platform geared toward young teenagers. In 2023, Goralik was added to Russia’s list of “foreign agents.”
Ekaterina KOTRIKADZE
Ekaterina Kotrikadze is the director of the News Service at the exiled independent Russian television channel TV Rain (Dozhd). TV Rain was forced to shut down shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The channel relocated to Amsterdam, where it now broadcasts to an audience of millions of Russians inside and outside the country.
Kotrikadze received a Redkollegia award in 2021 for “Bring Back That Memory,” a report on how terrorist attacks are remembered in Russia and the U.S. She was previously a deputy editor-in-chief of independent broadcasting network RTVI and the head of PIK, an independent news channel focused on the Caucasus in Georgia. In February 2018, she was the first Russian-speaking journalist to speak out on alleged sexual harassment by senior Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky. Kotrikadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and graduated with honors from the Moscow State University journalism faculty.
Sasha SKOCHILENKO
Sasha Skochilenko is an artist, musician, activist and former political prisoner. Skochilenko was detained in April 2022 after she protested Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine by replacing price tags in a St. Petersburg supermarket with anti-war messages. She was sentenced to seven years in prison for spreading “false information” about the Russian army. She was one of over a dozen prisoners freed by Russia in a historic exchange with the West on Aug. 1.
Anastasia SHEVCHENKO
Anastasia Shevchenko is a Russian human rights activist and former political prisoner campaigning for democracy and strengthening civil society in Russia. In January 2019, she was arrested for her activism with the Open Russia pro-democracy organization, and she spent more than two years under house arrest. While under house arrest, Shevchenko was denied permission to visit her eldest daughter, Alina, who was gravely ill and passed away just after Shevchenko was allowed to see her.
Tanya LOKSHINA
Tanya Lokshina is the associate director of the Europe and Central Asia Division at Human Rights Watch. Lokshina has authored a range of reports on egregious abuses in Russia’s North Caucasus region and violations of international humanitarian law in the context of the armed conflicts in Ukraine, Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh. She also extensively reported on Russia’s vicious crackdown on critics of the government, escalation of public protests and abuses against peaceful protesters in Belarus.
Ksenia MAXIMOVA
Ksenia Maximova is the founder and director of the London-based Russian Democratic Society, an organization that brings together Russians who share democratic values in the U.K. and has raised tens of thousands of pounds for humanitarian aid to Ukraine. She is also a coordinator for the Antiwar Human Rights Coalition. She has been an anti-Putin and pro-Ukrainian campaigner since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Previously, Ksenia was an internationally renowned model and continues to work in fashion.
Nadya RAPLYA
Nadya Raplya is a dissident visual artist from Russia, the author of the artwork “It’s Too Fucking Late to Draw,” which serves as a universal manifesto for Russian artists in exile, reflecting their sense of urgency, frustration, and determination. Nadya was among the founders of the AXYXY community, which unites hundreds of dissident art creators, many of whom are now oppressed by the Russian government.
Vladlena SANDU
Vladlena Sandu was born in her father’s homeland of Crimea in 1982. After her parents divorced, she moved to her mother’s native city of Grozny in the republic of Chechnya. She lived through six years of war as a child and teenager. In 1998, she emigrated to mainland Russia and received the status of an Internally Displaced Person. In 2011, she graduated from Rodchenko Art School. In 2016 she graduated from the VGIK, where she studied film directing on a BA course led by Alexei Uchitel. In 2019, she graduated from Boris Yukhananov’s Studio of Independent Direction. In March 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine, she became a refugee for the second time. Today she lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Vika PRIVALOVA
Vika Privalova is an artist, independent theater director, feminist, and human rights activist. She works on themes such as memory, relationships, togetherness, and gender inequality. Over the past six months, she has been working on performances based on the diaries of Alexandra Kollontai and Svetlana Petriychuk’s play “Finist the Bright Falcon.” Currently, she is developing a project focused on decolonizing romantic relationships. For 10 years, Vika created plays, performances, and installations in Russia. However, after Feb. 24, 2022, she began receiving threats due to her activism and had to leave. She now resides in Paris. Vika is a part of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance collective.
Anastasia BURAKOVA
Anastasia Burakova is the founder of Kovcheg (The Ark), the largest group assisting Russian expatriates persecuted for their anti-war positions and supporting anti-war and media projects. A human rights lawyer, Burakova previously worked as a coordinator of the Open Russia Human Rights Team and co-founder of the United Democrats project, which supported independent candidates in local elections in Russian regions.
Zalina MARSHENKULOVA
Zalina Marshenkulova is a journalist, popular blogger and one of the most influential Russian liberal feminists. She is best known for her widely followed feminist Telegram channel, Woman's Power, and for authoring a groundbreaking feminist advertisement in collaboration with Reebok. A dedicated human rights and LGBTQ+ activist, Zalina has faced persecution and repression from Russian authorities for her outspoken support of LGBTQ+ rights and her fight against discrimination against women. In addition to her activism, she has over a decade of experience as a digital director, leading major media, nonprofit and commercial projects.
Zhanna AGALAKOVA
Zhanna AGALAKOVA
Zhanna Agalakova is a Russian journalist, special correspondent and television news presenter who resigned from the state-run Channel One broadcaster in protest of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the time of her resignation, she was the channel’s correspondent in Paris. After leaving Channel One, Agalakova said she believed Russian television was being used to spread Kremlin propaganda and that she wanted Russians to stop allowing themselves to be “zombified” by propaganda. In 2002 she was nominated for the TEFI Award, a Russian television award similar to the Emmys. She was awarded the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” in 2006 and received the Order of Friendship in 2019. She returned her state awards to the Kremlin in September 2022.
Zhanna Agalakova is a Russian journalist, special correspondent and television news presenter who resigned from the state-run Channel One broadcaster in protest of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the time of her resignation, she was the channel’s correspondent in Paris. After leaving Channel One, Agalakova said she believed Russian television was being used to spread Kremlin propaganda and that she wanted Russians to stop allowing themselves to be “zombified” by propaganda. In 2002 she was nominated for the TEFI Award, a Russian television award similar to the Emmys. She was awarded the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” in 2006 and received the Order of Friendship in 2019. She returned her state awards to the Kremlin in September 2022.
Linor
GORALIK
Linor
GORALIK
Linor Goralik is an award-winning poet, prose author, critic, comics artist, and journalist. She is a vocal opponent of Vladimir Putin’s regime and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Following the invasion, she launched Resistance and Opposition Arts Review (ROAR), an online magazine publishing anti-war, anti-Kremlin voices, and Novosti-26, a news platform geared toward young teenagers. In 2023, Goralik was added to Russia’s list of “foreign agents.”
Linor Goralik is an award-winning poet, prose author, critic, comics artist, and journalist. She is a vocal opponent of Vladimir Putin’s regime and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Following the invasion, she launched Resistance and Opposition Arts Review (ROAR), an online magazine publishing anti-war, anti-Kremlin voices, and Novosti-26, a news platform geared toward young teenagers. In 2023, Goralik was added to Russia’s list of “foreign agents.”
Ekaterina
KOTRIKADZE
Ekaterina
KOTRIKADZE
Ekaterina Kotrikadze is the director of the News Service at the exiled independent Russian television channel TV Rain (Dozhd). TV Rain was forced to shut down shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The channel relocated to Amsterdam, where it now broadcasts to an audience of millions of Russians inside and outside the country.
Kotrikadze received a Redkollegia award in 2021 for “Bring Back That Memory,” a report on how terrorist attacks are remembered in Russia and the U.S. She was previously a deputy editor-in-chief of independent broadcasting network RTVI and the head of PIK, an independent news channel focused on the Caucasus in Georgia. In February 2018, she was the first Russian-speaking journalist to speak out on alleged sexual harassment by senior Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky. Kotrikadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and graduated with honors from the Moscow State University journalism faculty.
Ekaterina Kotrikadze is the director of the News Service at the exiled independent Russian television channel TV Rain (Dozhd). TV Rain was forced to shut down shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The channel relocated to Amsterdam, where it now broadcasts to an audience of millions of Russians inside and outside the country.
Kotrikadze received a Redkollegia award in 2021 for “Bring Back That Memory,” a report on how terrorist attacks are remembered in Russia and the U.S. She was previously a deputy editor-in-chief of independent broadcasting network RTVI and the head of PIK, an independent news channel focused on the Caucasus in Georgia. In February 2018, she was the first Russian-speaking journalist to speak out on alleged sexual harassment by senior Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky. Kotrikadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and graduated with honors from the Moscow State University journalism faculty.
Sasha SKOCHILENKO
Sasha SKOCHILENKO
Sasha Skochilenko is an artist, musician, activist and former political prisoner. Skochilenko was detained in April 2022 after she protested Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine by replacing price tags in a St. Petersburg supermarket with anti-war messages. She was sentenced to seven years in prison for spreading “false information” about the Russian army. She was one of over a dozen prisoners freed by Russia in a historic exchange with the West on Aug. 1.
Sasha Skochilenko is an artist, musician, activist and former political prisoner. Skochilenko was detained in April 2022 after she protested Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine by replacing price tags in a St. Petersburg supermarket with anti-war messages. She was sentenced to seven years in prison for spreading “false information” about the Russian army. She was one of over a dozen prisoners freed by Russia in a historic exchange with the West on Aug. 1.
Anastasia SHEVCHENKO
Anastasia SHEVCHENKO
Anastasia Shevchenko is a Russian human rights activist and former political prisoner campaigning for democracy and strengthening civil society in Russia. In January 2019, she was arrested for her activism with the Open Russia pro-democracy organization, and she spent more than two years under house arrest. While under house arrest, Shevchenko was denied permission to visit her eldest daughter, Alina, who was gravely ill and passed away just after Shevchenko was allowed to see her.
Anastasia Shevchenko is a Russian human rights activist and former political prisoner campaigning for democracy and strengthening civil society in Russia. In January 2019, she was arrested for her activism with the Open Russia pro-democracy organization, and she spent more than two years under house arrest. While under house arrest, Shevchenko was denied permission to visit her eldest daughter, Alina, who was gravely ill and passed away just after Shevchenko was allowed to see her.
Tanya LOKSHINA
Tanya LOKSHINA
Tanya Lokshina is the associate director of the Europe and Central Asia Division at Human Rights Watch. Lokshina has authored a range of reports on egregious abuses in Russia’s North Caucasus region and violations of international humanitarian law in the context of the armed conflicts in Ukraine, Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh. She also extensively reported on Russia’s vicious crackdown on critics of the government, escalation of public protests and abuses against peaceful protesters in Belarus.
Tanya Lokshina is the associate director of the Europe and Central Asia Division at Human Rights Watch. Lokshina has authored a range of reports on egregious abuses in Russia’s North Caucasus region and violations of international humanitarian law in the context of the armed conflicts in Ukraine, Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh. She also extensively reported on Russia’s vicious crackdown on critics of the government, escalation of public protests and abuses against peaceful protesters in Belarus.
Ksenia MAXIMOVA
Ksenia MAXIMOVA
Ksenia Maximova is the founder and director of the London-based Russian Democratic Society, an organization that brings together Russians who share democratic values in the U.K. and has raised tens of thousands of pounds for humanitarian aid to Ukraine. She is also a coordinator for the Antiwar Human Rights Coalition. She has been an anti-Putin and pro-Ukrainian campaigner since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Previously, Ksenia was an internationally renowned model and continues to work in fashion.
Ksenia Maximova is the founder and director of the London-based Russian Democratic Society, an organization that brings together Russians who share democratic values in the U.K. and has raised tens of thousands of pounds for humanitarian aid to Ukraine. She is also a coordinator for the Antiwar Human Rights Coalition. She has been an anti-Putin and pro-Ukrainian campaigner since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Previously, Ksenia was an internationally renowned model and continues to work in fashion.
Nadya
RAPLYA
Nadya
RAPLYA
Nadya Raplya is a dissident visual artist from Russia, the author of the artwork “It’s Too Fucking Late to Draw,” which serves as a universal manifesto for Russian artists in exile, reflecting their sense of urgency, frustration, and determination. Nadya was among the founders of the AXYXY community, which unites hundreds of dissident art creators, many of whom are now oppressed by the Russian government.
Nadya Raplya is a dissident visual artist from Russia, the author of the artwork “It’s Too Fucking Late to Draw,” which serves as a universal manifesto for Russian artists in exile, reflecting their sense of urgency, frustration, and determination. Nadya was among the founders of the AXYXY community, which unites hundreds of dissident art creators, many of whom are now oppressed by the Russian government.
Vladlena SANDU
Vladlena
SANDU
Vladlena Sandu was born in her father’s homeland of Crimea in 1982. After her parents divorced, she moved to her mother’s native city of Grozny in the republic of Chechnya. She lived through six years of war as a child and teenager. In 1998, she emigrated to mainland Russia and received the status of an Internally Displaced Person. In 2011, she graduated from Rodchenko Art School. In 2016 she graduated from the VGIK, where she studied film directing on a BA course led by Alexei Uchitel. In 2019, she graduated from Boris Yukhananov’s Studio of Independent Direction. In March 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine, she became a refugee for the second time. Today she lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Vladlena Sandu was born in her father’s homeland of Crimea in 1982. After her parents divorced, she moved to her mother’s native city of Grozny in the republic of Chechnya. She lived through six years of war as a child and teenager. In 1998, she emigrated to mainland Russia and received the status of an Internally Displaced Person. In 2011, she graduated from Rodchenko Art School. In 2016 she graduated from the VGIK, where she studied film directing on a BA course led by Alexei Uchitel. In 2019, she graduated from Boris Yukhananov’s Studio of Independent Direction. In March 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine, she became a refugee for the second time. Today she lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Vika PRIVALOVA
Vika
PRIVALOVA
Vika Privalova is an artist, independent theater director, feminist, and human rights activist. She works on themes such as memory, relationships, togetherness, and gender inequality. Over the past six months, she has been working on performances based on the diaries of Alexandra Kollontai and Svetlana Petriychuk’s play “Finist the Bright Falcon.” Currently, she is developing a project focused on decolonizing romantic relationships. For 10 years, Vika created plays, performances, and installations in Russia. However, after Feb. 24, 2022, she began receiving threats due to her activism and had to leave. She now resides in Paris. Vika is a part of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance collective.
Vika Privalova is an artist, independent theater director, feminist, and human rights activist. She works on themes such as memory, relationships, togetherness, and gender inequality. Over the past six months, she has been working on performances based on the diaries of Alexandra Kollontai and Svetlana Petriychuk’s play “Finist the Bright Falcon.” Currently, she is developing a project focused on decolonizing romantic relationships. For 10 years, Vika created plays, performances, and installations in Russia. However, after Feb. 24, 2022, she began receiving threats due to her activism and had to leave. She now resides in Paris. Vika is a part of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance collective.
Anastasia BURAKOVA
Anastasia BURAKOVA
Anastasia Burakova is the founder of Kovcheg (The Ark), the largest group assisting Russian expatriates persecuted for their anti-war positions and supporting anti-war and media projects. A human rights lawyer, Burakova previously worked as a coordinator of the Open Russia Human Rights Team and co-founder of the United Democrats project, which supported independent candidates in local elections in Russian regions.
Anastasia Burakova is the founder of Kovcheg (The Ark), the largest group assisting Russian expatriates persecuted for their anti-war positions and supporting anti-war and media projects. A human rights lawyer, Burakova previously worked as a coordinator of the Open Russia Human Rights Team and co-founder of the United Democrats project, which supported independent candidates in local elections in Russian regions.
Zalina MARSHENKULOVA
Zalina MARSHENKULOVA
Zalina Marshenkulova is a journalist, popular blogger and one of the most influential Russian liberal feminists. She is best known for her widely followed feminist Telegram channel, Woman's Power, and for authoring a groundbreaking feminist advertisement in collaboration with Reebok. A dedicated human rights and LGBTQ+ activist, Zalina has faced persecution and repression from Russian authorities for her outspoken support of LGBTQ+ rights and her fight against discrimination against women. In addition to her activism, she has over a decade of experience as a digital director, leading major media, nonprofit and commercial projects.
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