Putin’s fiercest critic has died in an Arctic Circle penal colony. An Index writer remembers his fond and foolish friend

Putin’s fiercest critic has died in an Arctic Circle penal colony. An Index writer remembers his fond and foolish friend
Next weekend, Kyiv’s hipsters will be fed a diet of stand-up comedy, music, fashion and food as they raise a finger to their aggressive neighbour
John Sweeney remembers Ukrainian novelist turned war crimes investigator Victoria Amelina, who has died in a Russian rocket attack on a watering hole favoured by journalists
The Gomorrah author heads to court tomorrow in a case that illuminates the precarious state of media freedom in Italy
The empty chairs at the empty tables in a journalists’ hangout in Kyiv are a tribute to the ultimate price paid for free expression
Reporting for Index from Kyiv, John Sweeney says knocking a TV station off air by firing missiles at the transmitting tower is as subtle as Putin gets