"How I Turned Against Putin"

 

How I Turned Against Putin … Like many Russians, Anastasiia Carrier used to support Vladimir Putin. She thought the Russian leader — and, by extension, the country — was the victim of a global smear campaign, propagated by nations jealous of Russia’s size and strength.

Then she moved to America and became a journalist, learning to gather and vet information. “Everything I believed about Russia, the world, and myself came crashing down,” she writes in this deeply personal essay about the stranglehold of Russian disinformation — and the painful rift it has opened between her and her pro-Putin, pro-war family.