“I am afraid to go to jail,” the Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats told David Remnick. “But I have to see this through.”
, and others––have, with good reason, left the Russian capital for the safety of Yerevan, Baku, Tbilisi, and points west.
More than any Russian reporter I’ve ever encountered, Albats has studied the K.G.B. relentlessly, interviewing scores of ex-agents and officers for her articles and her book, “.” Albats was prescient, arguing since the early nineteen-nineties that, despite all the forecasts of economic and political transformation in Russia, the officers of the secret services were emerging not as shamed losers of the ancien régime but as shrewd survivors who would become the overlords of a new Russia.
“When I saw that footage from Nikolaev, my mind turned to Mark Albats, my dad, who, on September 5, 1941, was parachuted into Nazi-occupied Ukraine. So, when I see the footage, it hurts. I know this place!” she said. “I went there because my dad was there as a Soviet spy under the Nazi occupation trying to help save Ukraine. His safe house was in Nikolaev. Now the Ukrainians are getting anti-tank missiles from Germany. And who is attacking Nikolaev? Russia! This is beyond crazy.
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