Over Mikhail Zygar
Mikhail Zygar is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker, and the founding editor-in-chief of Russian news channel Dozhd, which provided an alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal TV channels by giving a platform to opposition voices. The recipient of a CPJ International Press Freedom Award, Zygar writes a weekly column on Russia and the war for DerSpiegel and also writes for The New York Times, Time, Vanity Fair, and Foreign Affairs. He is also the author of All the Kremlin's Men, The Empire Must Die, and War and Punishment. Currently a guest lecturer at Columbia University, he lives in New York with his husband.