Many journalists and Moscots fled Russia by plane, direction Istanbul, Turkey.
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His mobile phone and a tiny backpack, that’s all that Edouard Bourmistrov, 23, was able to carry with him when he left Moscow to embark on a flight towards Istanbul, Wednesday 2 March. “I did not even have time to take my computer,” sorry the young journalist, who worked so far for the dojd independent chain, prohibited by the Kremlin. Fleeping Russia from Putin, his fierce war against Ukraine, his brutal repression against the independent media, was, for him and his colleagues, “an absolute priority”.
It was necessary to do quickly, the airspace closed, the flights to Istanbul or Dubai, the only destinations still open, were stormed, “the prices of the tickets climbed from time to time” and the new round Devied by Putin internally “did not give anything good”.
FSB controls at the airport
At Moscow airport, “Representatives of the FSB [Russian Policy Policy] were present at boarding, alongside the hostess who teamed the tickets. Some passengers have been out of the line to be interrogated in a separate room had their laptop scrutinized. The police have seen their profiles on social networks closely and also the Ukrainian numbers recorded in their address books … “says Dmitri Varlav, a colleague from Edouard in Dojd, freshly arrived in Istanbul too.
Staying in Moscow, it was risking the prison. Adopted recently, an Orwellian law punishes heavily, up to fifteen years in prison, all those who disseminate “misleading information” on “the special operation” of the Russian army in Ukraine, that President Putin forbids to describe ” war “. For refusing to delete their sites the words “war”, “cities bombardments” or “civilian losses”, not to mention military losses, taboo subject if it is, the rare independent Russian media, Dojd, Meduza , BBC, Deutsche Welle, Nastoachtchee Vremia and the Radio Echo de Moscow, saw their sites and their antennas blocked at the request of the floor, Monday 1 er March
In the evening, while all the writing of Dojd was reunited to decide what to do, the safety guard of the building was notified by telephone of an imminent intervention of the special commandos of the special Police, known for their brutality. “We knew they might ransack our offices and stopped we then fled without asking our rest, leaving behind us, who his computer, who his coat”, says Dmitri.
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