The Colorado Sun: They always come at 6 a.m.

During the first nine months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I spent every morning waiting for the police to arrive.

Every Russian opposition leader, civil rights activist and independent journalist lives with that same daily fear that police will come to search their home and then most likely arrest them. Or that it will happen to their family members. I finally left Russia in December, even though I never wanted to live in another country.

And now in exile, I worry every day that my brave colleagues still in Russia face the same searches, the same fear, for simply trying to do their job.

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