RSF exfiltrates Ekaterina Barabash: the Russian journalist’s escape from Moscow to Paris

RSF exfiltrates Ekaterina Barabash: the Russian journalist’s escape from Moscow to Paris

On 5 May, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) held a press conference at its headquarters to present Ekaterina Barabash to the press. The Russian journalist and film critic disappeared from Moscow, where she was under house arrest, on 21 April and is now in Paris. Exhausted but free, Ekaterina Barabash recounted her escape from the Russian authorities, who put her on their wanted list as she faced up to ten years in prison. RSF coordinated the opera…

Perhaps it is courage, tiredness or determination. Or a bit of everything. The journalist, teacher and essayist Moscovita Sergey Medvedev, 58 years old, has a natural count that it is not only that the Kremlin considers him a “foreign agent”, but that there is an arrest warrant against him; that he may be imprisoned for 10 to 20 years in a Russian court for crimes of “defamation” against the army of his country, and that there are already places…

At the end of February 2025, Russian film critic Yekaterina Barabash was accused of spreading "fakes" about the Russian army because of four Facebook posts and sent under house arrest. On 21 April, it became known that she had not appeared before the court in violation of the conditions of the preventive measure and had been reported wanted.

Most Russians ‘don’t care about the war,’ says journalist Ekaterina Barabash after escaping Russia

In early May, 64-year-old film critic and journalist Ekaterina Barabash made international headlines when it was revealed that she had pulled off a daring escape from house arrest in Russia and sought political asylum in France. Barabash was put under house arrest in February for posts that she had made criticizing Russia’s war against Ukraine. She was accused of spreading “knowingly false” information about the military on her social media. Th