The new post-invasion laws had a chilling effect on press freedom, not only for Russian journalists but also for their foreign counterparts. Talented correspondents made their reputations in Moscow throughout the Soviet period and in the tumultuous years afterward—among them New Yorker editor David Remnick, the author of Lenin’s Tomb; Canada’s deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland, a Financial Times reporter in the 1990s; Guardian journalist turned novelist and essayist James Meek; and many others.
