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Faranak Amidi presents global stories from the Fifth Floor, home to the BBC’s 40 Language Services.

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Faranak Amidi with BBC Russian's Oksana Antonenko in front of Riga's historic House of the Blackheads

24/02/2023 GMT

BBC Russian: Meet the Riga team

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A new life and a new way of working for BBC Russian’s Moscow journalists, now in Latvia

A new life and a new way of working for BBC Russian’s Moscow journalists, now in Latvia.

Faranak Amidi meets the BBC Russian journalists who relocated from Moscow to the Latvian capital after the invasion of Ukraine.

The first anniversary: what's in the news?
Editor Sergei Zakin tells us what the news focus has been for his team in the week of the first anniversary of the invasion. 

The move from Moscow to Riga
Bureau chief Andrei Goryanov explains why the difficult decision was taken to move BBC Russian journalists and their families out of Moscow, and why Riga was chosen as their new home.

Leaving Russia
Seva Boiko, Liza Fokht and Sergei Goryashko share their experiences of the past year. They describe the challenge of leaving homes and family members and building a new life in a new city. We find out how the shared difficulties have brought the team closer together. 

Riga: my home town
For several years, Latvian journalist Oksana Antonenko covered news from the Baltic region for BBC Russian. She tells us what it was like when nearly 50 colleagues arrived from Moscow to set up their new base in her home town.

Reporting Russia from outside
The move from Moscow to Riga has meant a new way of reporting for many of the BBC Russian team. Misha Poplavsky and Nataliya Zotova tell us how the change has impacted them. And they reflect with Oksana on what the future holds for them, personally and professionally.

(Photo: Faranak Amidi with BBC Russian's Oksana Antonenko in front of Riga's historic House of the Blackheads. Credit: BBC)

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