MIKHAIL ZYGAR is a journalist, writer, filmmaker, and the founding editor-in-chief of Russian news channel Dozhd, which provided an alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal TV channels by giving a platform to opposition voices. The recipient of an International Press Freedom Award, Zygar writes a weekly column on Russia and the war for DerSpiegel, and also writes for The New York Times, Time, Vanity Fair, and Foreign Affairs. Currently a guest lecturer at Columbia University, he is the author of All the Kremlin’s Men, The Empire Must Die, and War and Punishment.