After exposing Ukrainian torture claims and Russian 'concentration camps', reporter Elena Kostyuchenko believes she was poisoned by Moscow agents. One year on, she reveals her ongoing health problems
Award-winning Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko has been told that she could be killed if she returns to her homeland After exposing Ukrainian torture claims and Russian ‘concentration camps’, reporter Elena Kostyuchenko believes she was poisoned by Moscow agents. One year on, she reveals her ongoing health problemsRob is Special Projects Editor at i.
“I went down into the subway but couldn’t figure out where I was going. I started crying.” She was helped by strangers and somehow eventually reached her apartment. She went straight to bed, wondering if a recent bout of Covid was flaring up again, but felt worse the next morning. “I woke up with stomach pain. The room was spinning wildly, I threw up.”
There are hundreds of these institutions across Russia, holding more than 150,000 adults who are labelled “residents” but cannot leave. Some of them spend a whole lifetime in these places, where human rights seemingly do not exist. “I was like: I’ve read about Nazi concentration camps and it’s happening in my country right now. What the f**k? Since then, I have no illusions… All these years, I was observing and describing how fascism was growing inside my country, and how it flourished with war in the end, which it always does.”
Kostyuchenko secured the release of three sterilised women she had met and the institution’s director was replaced. She was told they had stopped hosing down inmates with water to clean them. But little else changed. “One article isn’t going to demolish a system that was created by Stalin and has survived until Putin’s time.”
Kostyuchenko opens up about how “Mama” regretted the Soviet Union’s collapse. Although she did not vote for Putin at first because of his KGB past, for years she has refused to believe the revelations from her own daughter’s newspaper about his regime. She stood by the Kremlin propaganda that Ukrainians are Nazis who hate Russia. She refused to believe there was anything wrong in annexing Crimea.
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