The Challenge of Journalism From Abroad

I think with journalism, especially with going back to our conversation about journalism from abroad, it becomes harder. I think that my takeaway is that the challenge we are facing to understand Russia now is probably more complex and tricky than the all times Sovietologists had to some extent. Yes, Russia is far more open, far more digitalized. There is many streams of data. But at the same time regime wants to be very secretive and it can bring all practices on how to make people scared and not talk too much. And then the system doesn't do a good job to be understandable for itself. We have a public duty as academics, reporters and think tankers to put all of these pieces together