“It’s a country that I love, and which is sinking into madness.”
When she talks about Russia, her blue eyes are lost.
Attentive to details and a “
hard worker”,
she admits half-heartedly that her last investigation into war crimes in Ukraine was trying.
“We arrived in Izyoum less than ten days after the departure of Russian forces from the city.
There were mass graves, with about 400 bodies buried in one place.
The air was unbreathable... Behind the camera, I closed my eyes.
This has never happened to me before.”
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Ksenia Bolchakova was born in Moscow in 1983. Her father then worked for Pravda
,
the official newspaper of the former USSR.
In 1986, he obtained the prestigious position of correspondent in Paris, and took his wife and two daughters with him.
“I remember our arrival in France on December 25.
Everyone wished us a Merry Christmas… except that we didn’t know about this holiday!”
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