Lilia Yapparova
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Lilia Yapparova in a Russian journalist.[1] She is known for her defiance of the rules imposed on Russian journalists who report on Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.[2][3]
She was arrested, in Moscow, by the FSB, on July 7, 2020, while protesting the detention of fellow journalists Ivan Safronov.[1]
During a May 2022 interview with the BBC News Yapparova described how her dedication to the truth caused her to work with other defiant journalists in the Meduza media group.[2] She was then working from Kiev.
In June of 2023 Yapparova and fellow journalist Vera Mironova reported that the Russia's FSB was recruiting former ISIS fighters, who were then assigned to Chechen military units.[4][5] One of their sources, Baurzhan Kultanov, was a Russian citizen, who had made his way to the Syrian warzone, to fight as a foreign volunteer, in ISIS occupied Raqqa.
Yapparova is frequently interviewed, to provide an informed perspective on Russia, and its invasion of Ukraine.[6][7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Lilia Yapparova: Short-term detention". Justice for Journalists. 2020-07-07. https://jfj.fund/jfj/lilia-yapparova/. Retrieved 2023-07-03. "Yapparova was detained at the FSB building on Lubyanka Square, where a series of solo pickets were held in support of Ivan Safronov, a former journalist at Kommersant and Vedomosti, arrested on charges of state treason. Yapparova was released from the police station with a summons to appear for a warrant to be issued on an offense."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sarah Rainsford (2022-05-23). "Ukraine war: The defiant Russians speaking out about the war". BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61542365. Retrieved 2023-07-02. "Meduza, the news site Ms Yapparova writes for, has been banned in Russia, like almost all independent outlets. Journalists and media have been labelled as 'foreign agents' while Facebook and other social media are blocked."
- ↑ Natalia Kondratiuk-Świerubska (2022-05-24). "Rosyjska dziennikarka informuje na temat sytuacji w Ukrainie. "Przegraliśmy wojnę z propagandą" [A Russian journalist reports on the situation in Ukraine. "We have lost the war on propaganda"]" (in Polish). Kobieta. Archived from the original on 2023-03-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20230326080632/https://kobieta.gazeta.pl/kobieta/7,183391,28490424,rosyjska-dziennikarka-informuje-na-temat-ytuacji-w-ukrainie.html. Retrieved 2023-07-02. "Kobieta zdaje sobie doskonale sprawę z tego, że jej działalność wiąże się z ogromnym ryzykiem. Jak przypomina BBC, w Rosji informowanie na temat wojny w Ukrainie jest przestępstwem. Dziennikarka może być oskarżona o tworzenie i rozpowszechnianie 'fake newsów'. Ona jednak nie wyobraża sobie, że mogłaby postąpić inaczej. - Nie ukryję faktów. Czy pójdę za to do więzienia? Wszystko może się zdarzyć - wyznała. - Na razie przegraliśmy wojnę z propagandą - podsumowuje Yapparova."
- ↑ Lilia Yapparova, Vera Mironova (2023-05-22). "‘You really are a terrorist’ How Russia’s FSB recruits former ISIS fighters — and tries to plant them in Ukrainian battalions". Meduza. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/05/22/you-really-are-a-terrorist. Retrieved 2023-07-02. "Meduza special correspondent Lilia Yapparova and terrorism expert Vera Mironova have discovered that among other things, the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has been recruiting former Islamic State (or ISIS) fighters and trying to embed them in pro-Ukrainian Chechen units and Crimean Tatar battalions. Here’s how they do it."
- ↑ Lilia Yapparova, Vera Mironova (2023-06-22). "I’m Lilia Yapparova, a Meduza investigative reporter, and I’m Vera Mironova, a terrorism expert. Together, we authored a report on how Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has been recruiting former Islamic State (or ISIS) fighters and trying to embed them in Ukraine. AMA!". Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/14g30lr/im_lilia_yapparova_a_meduza_investigative/. Retrieved 2023-07-02. "Together, we authored a report for Meduza on what Russia's intelligence services have been up to under wartime conditions. We discovered that among other things, the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has been recruiting former Islamic State (or ISIS) fighters and trying to embed them in pro-Ukrainian Chechen units and Crimean Tatar battalions."
- ↑ "interview by Claudio Locatelli to the Russian journalist Lilia Yapparova". YouTube. 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HmNivL4dUA. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
- ↑ "Спецкор "Медузы" Лилия Яппарова о том, что будет с ЧВК "Вагнер" после мятежа Пригожина". YouTube. 2023-06-30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMVn9iG82Y8. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
