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Cheering. i don't want to be a part of a political fight. unfortunately, we are part of a political fight, but it's not our choice to be there. we just wanted to be journalists. our mission is to be there for russian citizens, for people who live in russia who want better russia. since its relaunch from latvia, tv rain�*s audience has grown. in september, 1a million viewers inside russia watched its content on youtube. i think tv rain can stop putin. i think that citizens of russia could stop putin.

The discussion turns to the question of language. while in georgia, katya has strived to give her children a sense of normality. but once again, the family is preparing to move. to latvia, the new home of tv rain.

From a journalist friend. he said, "grab your kids and leave the country". and i was absolutely dead on that moment. we understood that it is impossible to work in such conditions, and we decided to stop operations. when tv rain made its last broadcast from moscow on 3rd march, katya and tikhon had already left the country. staff were wondering whether they would ever work together again.

We had 25 million views on youtube daily, which is a huge amount of people. this amount of people could show that this narrative about massive support of this war is false, so that's why they have killed us. meanwhile state media echoed the kremlin line... ..that russia's invasion of ukraine was just a special military operation, not a war. then, president putin signed a law that would jail for up to 15 years anyone who questioned the war. this law was adopted specifically to get rid of anyone who would be against this government, openly and actively. on 1st march, the kremlin shut down tv rai...

Since leaving russia, katya and tikhon have spent the last four months in tbilisi. katya was born here, but moved to moscow when she was ten. katya's mother was one of more than 200 people killed after bombs