Oksana Baulina, a journalist for The Insider, died under fire in Kyiv. She was filming the destruction after Russian troops shelled the Podil district of the capital. Another civilian was also killed, and two more people who accompanied her were wounded and hospitalized. Before joining our media project, Oksana worked as a producer for the Anti-Corruption Foundation. After the organization was listed as an extremist organization, she had to leave Russia in order to continue reporting on Russian government corruption for The Insider.
via the insider: Oksana Baulina, a journalist for The Insider, dies under fire in Kyiv after a rocket strike on a shopping center in Podil
siehe auch: Ukraine war: Russian journalist Oksana Baulina killed in Kyiv shelling. Baulina had been reporting in Kyiv and Lviv before her death. A Russian journalist has been killed during shelling by Russian forces in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Oksana Baulina had been reporting from Kyiv and the western city of Lviv for investigative website The Insider, the outlet said in a statement. She died while filming damage in the city’s Podil district, it added. Baulina previously worked for Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption foundation, and had left Russia. Last year the foundation was made illegal and branded extremist by the authorities, forcing many of its staff to flee abroad; Russian Reporter Killed in Ukraine Remembered as Strong and Courageous Force for Good. Russian journalist Oksana Baulina, who was killed while reporting on Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, was a “strong” and “courageous” individual who possessed “a phenomenal sense of moral clarity,” her friends and colleagues said. (…) After leaving the glossy lifestyle publications behind, Baulina worked with Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) as a producer for Navalny’s YouTube channel until FBK was banned as an “extremist” organization in 2021. She also reported for independent news outlets such as Mediazona and The Insider, both of which are labeled “foreign agents” within Russia and were recently blocked by authorities over their war coverage. As Russia’s pressure on independent media and opposition activists intensified, Baulina left the country for Poland. “She was forced out of Russia,” Baulina’s friend, Tatiana Usmanova, told the independent Russian magazine Holod. “She had to leave the country in the summer of 2020, amid the pandemic. There was a high chance an extremism case could be opened against her. The border was almost completely closed at the time, so she had to cross it by foot, dragging her suitcases along.” Baulina went to Ukraine on assignment for The Insider in March and filed several stories from Kyiv and Lviv before she was killed; Oxana Baulina – Russische Journalistin stirbt bei Raketenangriff auf Kiew. Als Mitarbeiterin der in Russland als „Terrororganisation“ eingestuften Stiftung des Kreml-Kritikers Nawalny musste Oxana Baulina ihre Heimat verlassen. Nun starb die Journalistin während der Kriegsberichterstattung aus Kiew.