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Portrait – Franco-Russian journalist, 2022 Albert-Londres Prize, co-directs a documentary on the war in Ukraine. A damning investigation into war crimes committed by Vladimir Putin.
“It’s a country that I love, and that’s sinking into madness.” When he talks about Russia, his blue eyes are lost. Attentive to details andBig hard workerShe half-heartedly admits that her last investigation into war crimes in Ukraine was trying. “We arrived in Izyom less than ten days after the departure of the Russian forces from the city. There were mass graves, in which about 400 bodies were buried in one place. The air was incredible … Behind the camera, I closed my eyes. I had never before Didn’t happen.”
Ksenia Bolchakova was born in 1983 in Moscow. His father then worked for him. Pravda, the official newspaper of the former USSR. In 1986, he secured the prestigious position of correspondent in Paris, taking his wife and two daughters with him. “I remember our arrival in France on December 25. Everyone wished us a Merry Christmas… except we didn’t know about the holiday!”
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