‘More relevant every day’ in the U.S.: A filmmaker documented Russia’s journalists

Ksenia Mironova is one of the journalists profiled in My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow. Cinetic Marketing

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In the fall of 2021, four months before Russia started a full-scale war in Ukraine, filmmaker Julia Loktev came to Moscow to make a documentary. The Kremlin had recently labeled more than 100 individuals and organizations as “foreign agents” — a phrase with deep roots in Soviet-era repression — and Loktev wanted