Reporting from Russia: live event at the Frontline Club, London, January 20th 2023
ON FRIDAY 20TH JANUARY AT 1900 I will be chairing a live discussion, ‘Reporting from Russia’, at the Frontline Club in London.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a war not only on a neighbouring country, but also a war on journalism. New laws rushed through the Russian parliament in the wake of the invasion mean that the practice of independent journalism in Russia is now in effect illegal: even calling the war a ‘war’—rather than the Kremlin’s preferred euphemism of ‘special military operation’—carries the threat of a lengthy jail term. Not surprisingly, many journalists, Russian and international, have felt forced to flee the country. In consequence, reporting from Russia is restricted in a way unknown since the end of the Cold War—just at a time when the world needs it more than ever.
To discuss the consequences for international understanding of Russia, James Rodgers, former BBC Moscow correspondent and the author of Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin will be joined by Emma Burrows, news editor at ITV News, Marc Bennetts, Moscow correspondent in exile for The Times and Olga Ivshina, senior Russian correspondent at the BBC.
If you are in London, please come and join us. Tickets–including reduced prices for students–here Panel discussion: Reporting from Russia Tickets, Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 19:00 | Eventbrite .