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Alisa Sopova

Alisa Sopova, a 2017 Nieman Fellow, is a reporter and producer for international media in Ukraine. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard.

A World Where Those with Weapons Have Absolute Authority

A World Where Those with Weapons Have Absolute Authority

When you’re covering war in your own country, the gap between you and the rest of humanity feels overwhelming.
January 25, 2024
How Independent Russian Newsrooms Keep Reporting

How Independent Russian Newsrooms Keep Reporting

In March Elena Milashina, a reporter for Russia’s leading independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was tipped off by a source about the suspicious death of a man in Chechnya. Through her reporting, Milashina, who had been covering Chechnya for…
November 3, 2017

When War Comes Home

Three years ago I worked as a news editor at Donbass, the largest newspaper and news website in my native city of Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine. I was responsible for…
January 5, 2017