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Up close with a brave Jewish voice in Putin’s Russia

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Published: 31 January 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Yevgenia Albats was called ‘kikeface’ as a kid in the Soviet Union and went on to become an intrepid reporter. She discusses Russian politics and what it’s like for Jews today

I FIRST TRIED TO interview Yevgenia Albats in 1990 when I was a journalist on my first trip back to Moscow, the city where I was born and had left 10 years earlier when I emigrated to the US at the age of 16.

I was doing research for an article about women and politics in the Soviet Union at a time when the country was in political flux, just before the fall of the Soviet Union, and spaces for political activity had opened up; Albats was one of the leading female voices in the male-dominated field of political journalism.

When I approached her at some event and asked for an interview, she was friendly enough but showed little interest in anything that could be labelled as women’s issues.

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