Anne Applebaum: Helping Russia’s sidelined and exiled journalists tell their stories
Paper planes and a candle are placed in front of the Dutch embassy in Moscow on July 17, 2015 in memory of the people who died in the crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.
When I first met Yevgenia Albats, it was the 1990's, the Soviet Union had just ceased to exist and she was a rising star in the new Russian journalism -- one of many. The explosion of creativity in Russian media in that era is one of the post-Soviet miracles that no one has ever quite explained.
