Lana Estemirova🇺🇦
@lanaestemirova
writer and activist from Chechnya | host of Trouble with the Truth podcast
My latest op-ed for the Guardian. Ukraine’s victory will be a victory for every victim of Putin’s regime.
Putin’s terror playbook: everything he is doing to Ukraine, he did to my home, Chechnya, first | Lana Estemirova theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
It was such a pleasure to talk with Lana on this episode of Trouble with the Truth about this mega-elections year and safety and security concerns and tips for journalists.
🎧 Do not miss the final episode of the second season of Trouble with the Truth by @lanaestemirova about the #USElection2024. We will leave the details of the political drama to the pundits and instead focus on what we know best - journalists covering the elections.
⚡️ Oleg Orlov is free! We demand the release of all other political prisoners in Russia and Belarus. Russian human rights defender and co-founder of Memorial, Oleg Orlov was released from prison and transferred to Köln (Germany) today, in a historic political prisoner swap.…
71-year-old Oleg Orlov is one of the Russian prisoners being released in today’s prisoner exchange. Revisit @lanaestemirova’s op-ed about the “rebel with a cause” she knows. themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/04/rus…
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🎧 Do not miss the final episode of the second season of Trouble with the Truth by @lanaestemirova about the #USElection2024. We will leave the details of the political drama to the pundits and instead focus on what we know best - journalists covering the elections.
The sentencing of @WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich is despicable and only serves to underscore Russia’s utter contempt for media freedom. Journalism should not be a crime. Gershkovich must be released immediately.
JFJ is outraged by the verdict of the Russian court to sentence @WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison. Earlier, @lanaestemirova talked with @polinaivanovva about Evan’s arrest & the ‘letters to Evan’ initiative. Listen to the podcast: jfj.fund/trouble-with-t…
Absolute travesty of a trial. Free Evan!
A court in Yekaterinburg sentenced @WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in a maximum security prison. Mediazona's editorial team is outraged by the verdict and joins the demands of the reporter's immediate release. Journalism is not a crime!
🇵🇸 #Palestine received 1,000 tons of wheat flour under the "#GrainFromUkraine" humanitarian programme This shipment is the first of three deliveries intended for Palestine from #Ukraine under the initiative. It will help support over 101,000 Palestinian families for a month 🌾
🎧Don’t miss the new episode of Trouble with the Truth with Hong-Kong based journalist about the chilling effect of the National Security Law on Hong-Kong’s once thriving media and their trauma at witnessing their offices being raided by police. Listen: jfj.fund/trouble-with-t…
'She Was An Inconvenience': Remembering Rights Activist Natalya Estemirova 15 Years After Her Death rferl.org/a/estemirova-c…
Thanks to @bbcrussian for publishing my essay open.substack.com/pub/bbcrussian…
Here’s something that I wrote for the fifteenth anniversary of my mother’s murder. Surprisingly, it’s quite hopeful. bbcrussian.substack.com/p/remembering-…
Thank you for this @parfitt_tom. The date hits especially hard this year as it marks exactly half of my life spent without mum.
Today is fifteen years since the Chechen human rights activist Natasha Estemirova was assassinated in Russia’s North Caucasus region. She was an incredible, inspiring person and is not forgotten. A few words about her in this thread.
How you can help Kyiv's children hospital ohmatdytfund.org/en/donate
Scenes are too grim to describe here at Ohmatdyt children’s hospital. Somewhere in the foliage lies a woman’s corpse.
⚡️ At Kyiv's children's hospital "Okhmatdyt," victims are being searched for under the rubble. Many are injured.
Invasive spyware tech is crossing every line! Don’t miss @natynettle on @lanaestemirova’s Trouble with the Truth for hard-hitting insights on our report exposing the Pegasus attack on journalists and activists within the EU + steps to take to stay safer. open.spotify.com/episode/1RuS7p…