Journalist Ekaterina Barabash describes the retention run from Russia

When the journalist Ekaterina Barabash began to flee from Russia, he could not stand the older mother without saying goodbye to his mother.

“I had to tell him before the inevitable. He was the only one,” said Barabash, 63, said Quite Host Nile KӧKSAL.

“I was sure that I would soothe it and I thought he would soothe. But everything happened in the opposite. I cried and my mother calmed me.”

After the former radio, the former Radio France, which later works with the independent Republic, was arrested in the house, and when he decided to run for it, Russia was arrested for opposing the occupation of Ukraine.

Now, he strengthens in Paris, Borders, Borders, as well as the help of Borders without Borders recognized by RSF.

Many Russian journalists and activists who flee from the country since 2022 are illegal public expression protesting the official narrative of the government’s war in Ukraine.

“His escape was one of the most dangerous operations in RSF in March 2022 of the RSF.

“At a time, we thought he died.”

‘I have to tell the journalist and the truth’

In February 2022, Russia claims that Ukraine has launched a full-scale occupation, it claimed that he was trying to make De-Nazify.

Did not buy a drummer.

“I realized that I could not remain silent,” he said. “I have to tell the journalist and the truth.”

His motivation was as individual as it was professional. The son of Barabaş and his grandson live in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. He was born in Kharkiv, the second largest city of Ukraine.

“You can’t stay silent when the dreamer imagining how missiles of the bombs are.” “It hurts, your heart will break.”

Thus, he wrote several Facebook posts criticizing the occupation over the next two years.

“So (explosion) bombed the country, did you knock all cities to the ground, killing civilians for a hundred children, and did millions of people have been sent to a normal life and forced to go abroad?” read a writing. “All for friendship with Ukraine?”

In February this year, the Russian government arrested a drum after returning from the Berlin International Film Festival.

The Russian serviceman was charged with the dissemination of false information, foreign agent marking and housing without arrest. Faced with five years and 10 years.

He is not sure why the authorities expect to come so many years.

“I can’t understand that part,” he said. “Maybe they decided: now it’s his turn.”

‘A great adventure’

Barabash would not enter the special details of how to rose from Russia to threaten others using similar tactics.

“I can say that I’m just a great adventure,” he said, “With very dangerous moments.”

He fled on April 21 and was born to the outside world, as if it was just disappeared.

He leaves his house and says the ankle was collapsed from the monitoring device and met with a “special car” waiting for him. They later traveled more than 2800 kilometers using hidden routes to avoid control.

At one point, the plan scared the plan, and he was cut and forced to hide from their contacts in Europe. This was afraid of Brutt’s worst.

“I had to disappear. All smartphones, I had to turn off all the devices,” said Barabash.

During this isolation, he says he lives in fear of being caught, but he pushed over him, focused on his last goal.

“I had a goal. I had a goal. I had to be in freedom. So I had to finish it.” “I had to be lucky and strong.”

After leaving the country, he met with journalists who took him to Paris, visited and united with his psychologist, and now help them apply for asylum.

During the press conference on Monday, during a press conference, Russia condemned the lack of freedoms and there is no such thing as a Russian journalist.

“There is no culture in Russia, there is no policy. It is war only,” he said, pierces the state censorship. “Journalism may not exist under totalitarianism.”

According to OVD, the prominent group of rights of the prominent rights, 1240 people in Russia and the Russian-occupied Crimea faced charges since 2022, and 389 people are being taken.

According to journalists without borders, at least 38 journalists in Russia remain in prison.

While sitting in a new life that is very far from home, he thinks back to his last moments with his mother.

“He told me that I chose the right path or left path because my immigration was better than imprisonment,” he said.

“It’s 96 years old and I understand very well that I will not see him again. It is a great tragedy.”