Timur Olevsky is an anchor and multimedia journalist for Current Time, the Russian-language network led by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
For months, there have been doubts about Russia's COVID-19 death toll statistics. One demographer who publicly questioned the government's numbers found himself out of a job earlier this month.
Current Time shows how the politically connected catering empire of a Putin crony has used opaque ownership structures and the illusion of competitive bidding to tap into billions of dollars' worth of state contracts.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky remains upbeat about the prospects of democratic change in Russia, but sees the need for the citizenry to protect themselves from the government.
