By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


Journalist turned soldier

The NYT’s M. Gessen has a moving story about Russian opposition journalist Peter Ruzavin, who concluded he could no longer just write about the Russo-Ukrainian war. He decided he had to fight. So he became a solider in the Ukrainian army, measuring his oppositional contribution in a new and entirely different way.

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