MYSTERIOUS: Dozhd - You Need To See This

My Undesirable Friends: Part I – an extraordinary portrait of young Russian journalists fighting to report the truth

Director Julia Loktev’s “undesirable” friends are women, mostly in their 20s or early 30s, who live in Moscow. They all work for TV Rain (Dozhd’) founded in 2010 as a lively, optimistic channel with cool programmes for a young audience, which also addressed more serious issues.

The Conversation · Apr 9

Russia's Exiled Opposition Hopes For Rebirth With Berlin Rally

Russia's opposition will stage a major anti-war, anti-Kremlin demonstration in Berlin this weekend, a vital test for a movement driven into exile by war and repression, and plagued by infighting.

International Business Times · Nov 14, 2024

Navalny didn’t just show enormous courage and express irrepressible hope – he embodied them

The Russian opposition leader’s final message – to ‘be scared of nothing’ – should be heeded by the west following his death

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2024

Russian independent TV Rain relaunches from abroad

The liberal-leaning Russian independent TV station Dozhd (TV Rain) resumed broadcasting on Monday evening from abroad after being forced to shut its Moscow studio following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters · Jul 18, 2022

Russian TV channel takes aim at 'Iron Curtain' from outside

When television reporters Tikhon Dzyadko and Ekaterina Kotrikadze left Russia with other colleagues in March, they left the country without one of its few major non-government media outlets.

Reuters · Jun 21, 2022

Huge majority of Russians believe Putin propaganda ‘and cannot be reached’, says head of shut-down TV station

Exclusive: Natalia Sindeeva, founder of Dozhd TV, says Putin is winning the Russian information war because of his brutal crackdown on independent media

The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2022

‘It was game over’: Russian journalists flee to Istanbul after Putin’s shutdown

Staff of independent media such as Dozhd TV are exiled abroad, wondering what to do next

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2022

As a Russian news anchor, I was there when the free press ended in my country

At Dozhd we broadcast the truth about the war in Ukraine for as long as we dared. But for now, media freedom is over, says Russian journalist Denis Kataev

The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2022

The week in TV: Mood; Peaky Blinders; Killing Eve; Storyville: Tango With Putin

Nicôle Lecky bursts on to the screen in her sizzling lost girl tale; a final flourish for Killing Eve looks unlikely; and a chilling Storyville goes inside Russian TV station Dozhd

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2022

Defiant to the last, Moscow’s media star takes aim at Putin’s brutal clampdown

Natalya Sindeyeva, the founder of Dozhd, struggled to the last but her TV station has been silenced – for now

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2022