KIEV — Olena Prytula was sleeping so deeply that her mind would not be fully alerted to the real-life nightmare unfolding outside her door until she came face to face with it.
It was around 7:40 a.m. on July 20, 2016, and Prytula’s common-law partner, the Belarusian-born journalist Pavel Sheremet, had kissed her goodbye as he did every morning before driving her car to work at Kiev’s Radio Vesti, where he hosted a daily news program. Sheremet rarely altered his routine. And Prytula rarely missed his 8 a.m. show.
But on this day, with the sun shining in, Prytula, who is the owner, co-founder, and former editor-in-chief of the influential news website Ukrainska Pravda, dozed off. When a powerful explosion rocked her bed, scattered the birds outside her window, and set car alarms screaming on the street at 7:45 a.m., she said she almost didn’t get up.
“I came to the balcony to see what had exploded and where, but there was no sign of smoke and I couldn’t understand where it was coming from,” Prytula said. She told me she was crawling back into bed when “a thought came to my mind that we could report on what happened. And if Pavel was driving nearby, he would definitely stop and take a photo, or tweet it to talk about it later on the radio.”
Prytula said when she called his phone she received a message saying the number couldn’t be reached, so she figured he had forgotten to turn it on. She called five more times. Still no answer. She thought it was odd, but figured he was probably already in the studio preparing for his program.
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“I’m threatened often and given hints. Every time I go to Moscow, it’s like I’m in a minefield,” he told the news agency.
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Shelling Survivor, Ukraine
Larissa, a 30-year-old resident of Mykolayivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, in the hospital after her home was struck by shelling in July 2014. Her mother was killed in the attack. Photo by Reportage Emerging Talent Alexey Furman, a Ukrainian photographer who traveled to Donetsk to cover the conflict between Russian-backed rebels and government forces. This image was selected as a winner in the LensCulture Visual Storytelling Single Image category.
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Putin issues a presidential decree that extends a ban on coverage of military casualty figures to “peacetime, during special operations,” as well as in wartime. Such coverage, deemed to be disclosure of state secrets, is punishable by prison terms up to 20 years, according to local press reports.
Journalists who have tried to investigate reports of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine have been threatened and attacked, according to CPJ research. Critics say that today’s decree, which bans publishing military casualties during undefined “special operations” in peace time, could be interpreted as any military action. Disclosing such figures during wartime was already banned under Russian law.
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Portraits of pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk, Ukraine. by Marko Djurica
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Scenes from the fallout of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Michigan. by Philip Montgomery
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Oles Buzina was gunned down outside of his home by two masked men who fled the scene, according tonews reports. Ukraine’s interior ministry has launched an investigation into the murder, the agency said on its website.
The local and international press described Buzina as a pro-Russia journalist whowrote controversial articles and books on Ukraine’s history and the current political crisis in the country, including the conflict in the east.
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ALDAN, RUSSIA: Alexander Ovchinikov, an 18-year-old ‘srochniki’ starting his 2-year compulsory national service, bids a tearful farewell to family and friends on November 1, 2004 in his hometown of Aldan, in Eastern Siberia, Russia. The train will take ‘Sasha’ to an army barracks three days journey away in Khabarovsk.
Photo by 2006 Getty Images Editorial Grant winner Simon Roberts. Roberts’s project, The Russian Army, explores the intertwined relationship between military and daily life in Russian society.
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SLAVYANSK, UKRAINE - JULY 11: Vladimir (L) and Jacob ® stand inside their destroyed house in the village of Nicolaivka, near the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk. Pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions declared independence from Kiev and proclaimed their own people’s republics after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014. More than 2,000 civilians and combatants have been killed since mid-April, when Ukraine’s government sent troops to put down the rebel uprising.
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Following the annexation of Ukraine’s southernmost region in March 2014, Roskomnadzor ordered all media companies in Crimea to register as Russian entities by April 1, 2015, according to regional press reports and local journalists.
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Strong coverage coming in from Pierre Crom from Uglegorsk, Ukraine
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