Kaliningrad, 2016. Portrait of Ivan Ivanovich, former OMON special forces soldier in Baltiysk is tod

Kaliningrad, 2016. Portrait of Ivan Ivanovich, former OMON special forces soldier in Baltiysk is today a teacher for patriotism. In 2016 I went with my big love and expert reporter Prune Antoine #plumaberlin and Gil Skorwid on a research trip about the remilitarisation of the Kaliningrad region for #Mediapart and later won the #prixchaffajon for multimedia reportage.

After two days we got kicked out of Kaliningrad by the secret service who followed us all the time because we had no proper journalist Visa. So we went on to Lithuania and Poland who are direct neighbours to Russia / Kaliningrad. Both were afraid of what was coming after the annexation of Crimea. ———

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