The Fifth Floor: The Russian grandma who went to jail
Natalya Filonova is a former kindergarten teacher, a mother, a grandmother. But she’s also an activist who was arrested during an anti-war demonstration. What happened to her?
Natalya Filonova is a former kindergarten teacher, a mother, a grandmother. But she’s also an activist and in 2022 she was arrested during a demonstration against the war in Ukraine. Nina Nazarova from BBC Russian has been trying to find out what happened to her. Plus, how a homeless bumblebee brought a community together, with Joao Fellet from BBC Brasil.
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Produced by Alice Gioia and Caroline Ferguson
(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich.)
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