In Other Words Blog

As Russia’s aggression against Ukraine increasingly included a distorted reality of post-truth, military censorship and propaganda in Russia, the Kennan Institute launched the In Other Words blog series in September 2022. Written in the Russian language, this one-of-a-kind publication was conceived to support independent Russian journalists and writers, many of whom fled their country. Impressive readership statistics demonstrated its quickly growing value, and one blog entry reached more than 250,000 people across new and divergent platforms.

“In Other Words is a one-of-a-kind publication, which aims to resist the new distorted reality of post-truth, military censorship and propaganda in Russia. The project was conceived to support independent Russian journalists and writers, many of whom have had to leave behind their country but not their professional and humanistic values. In Other Words allows these people to keep working and interacting with their audiences and to affirm the most important value – freedom of speech.”

—Roman Super, editor-in-chief, In Other Words