TV2 Media
This group of media workers is coming forth from the Omsk TV station, shut down in 2015, and the TV2 media organization, self-dissolved for safety reasons in 2022.
Eyewitnesses of February 24
One amazingly powerful creation is the project “Eyewitnesses of February 24.” – individual accounts of people, how the 24th of February of 2022 has changed their lives. This is the largest Russian-language project with stories of different people – from a Moscow schoolgirl to writer Viktor Shenderovich – about how their lives were changed by the war.There is an English page with a selected few interviews available here.
Below you find more interviews on the dedicated YouTube channel of TV2 Media. You can switch on the google auto translation feature for the subtitles to connect with all of these people.
“Our city is destroyed. We lost everything – everything became dust.”
Masha Kostenko from the front-line Orekhov
This is a tragedy that is happening in my country. I hope that a brick will fall on Putin.
Lisa Pushkina – artist from Moscow
In Russia, the tradition of keeping a low profile is stronger than the value of self-expression.
Wanda Wong – stylist from Moscow
Physically there is a family.
But there is no connection.
Natalya – teacher from Barnaul
Mom shouted: “Russian soldiers could not do this.”
Elena Kostyuchenko – journalist
“You can’t defend yourself with Tolstoy’s quotes when you’re poked with a knife.”
Maria Novoseltseva – artist
“Putin turned out to be more important for those whom I love.”
Masha Makarova – journalist and anthropologist
A witness of the fascist occupation of Kharkov about two wars that she had to endure.
Valentina Tochilina – pensioner from Kharkiv
Patriotism has become synonymous with bloodthirstiness.
Tatyana Khromova – psychotherapist
Can we cure the mass psychosis of Russians?
Alexander Pravdin – Psychiatrist with 50 years of experience
“Scary numbers, but the cases are even scarier.”
Maria Chashchilova – Lawyer for OVD-Info
When they tell me about Russophobia, I answer: “It’s okay, you’ll be patient”
Lilia Koch – psychologist and writer
“Now all the victims. The war forcibly unified people”
Ekaterina Shulman – political scientist
“Russia will throw and throw into the furnace of this war.”
Maria Stroeva (Valechkova)
Russia lives on the principle of a totalitarian sect, and it always needs enemies.
Farida Kurbangaleeva – journalist
“The war will affect everyone.”
Nikita – Ukrainian Translator
People in Russia need to learn to be citizens
Daria Kalashnikova – Ukrainian artist
Life in occupied Kherson
Inna Sergeeva – Witness to the crimes of Russians
I can’t forgive people for supporting the war
Natalya Kondel
“The war will end, and I won’t have another father.”
Anastasia Arbuzova – designer and actress
“There is no law or jurisprudence left in Russia.”
Elizaveta Zolotareva – lawyer
“The authorities have armed themselves. They have millions of trained dogs.”
Salavat Fidai – artist
“Putin ruined Russia”
Andrei Loshak about the war, those who support it, and the isolation of the country
“The war was started in my name”
Ekaterina Sursyakova, activist
“Lenka, get up, we’re being bombed.”
Elena Sychevskaya – A theatrical decorator from Kyiv about being a refugee and starting from zero.
I don’t believe that everyone guilty of the war will be punished
Olesya Ostapchuk – correspondent “Holod”
“In the everyday sense, you can call it madness. But he does not have psychosis” Lyudmila Petranovskaya – Psychologist
“I just want to call a psychiatrist to the Kremlin” – Anastasia Shevchenko
“We’ve been silent for too long already.
We can no longer remain silent” –
Evgenia Ponomarenko
“I felt an order: write, write.”
Poetesse Vera Pavlova
By volunteering you put out the fire of shame. In Russia I felt like I was behind enemy lines |
Human Rights Activist Andrey Kalikh
The story of a Ukrainian woman
who tried to build a life in Russia
Russian Rap Musician Legalize:
Those who support war cannot be forgiven
Hannah Sorel has five children and was a succesfully leading several businesses in Kyiv. She tells how bombs flew over her house and how she then decided to flee with her husband children.
How her life changed from having everything to being a refugee with nothing at all.
“A civil war begins in Russia between those who are for the war and those who are against” | Alexander Ogienko
