Olga Khrustaleva

Fol­low­ing Rus­sia’s in­va­sion and me­dia crack­down, in­de­pen­dent out­let DOXA – like oth­ers – had to rein­vent it­self.

As many as 2,500 peo­ple from Rus­sia’s restive North Cau­ca­sus re­gion have be­come fight­ers in Syr­ia and Iraq.