24 days ago · Russia
‘The choice was prison or exile’: journalists who fled Russia publish grim portrait of Putin
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a politics story. The Guardian World is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Russia. The first report grouped here was at 22 Sept 2026, 10:58 UTC. The headline in use is “‘The choice was prison or exile’: journalists who fled Russia publish grim portrait of Putin”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin, who were forced to move abroad in 2021, tell of president capable of ‘limitless cruelty’ At 6am on 29 June 2021, the Russian journalist Roman Badanin was woken by a knock on the door of his family’s Moscow apartment. “Come quickly, someone has scratched your…
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- First reported by The Guardian World
‘The choice was prison or exile’: journalists who fled Russia publish grim portrait of Putin
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- The Guardian