‘I’ll baptise you with eight years in prison’
Since Russia designated Jehovah’s Witnesses as an extremist organisation in 2017, the authorities have brought criminal charges against 976 members of the faith.
‘I wanted to open the coffin and make sure it was really him’
In early 2023, Olesya buried a man she thought was her son. A former Wagner Group mercenary, he had died fighting in Ukraine, near Bakhmut. The entire village attended the funeral and the wake, offering condolences. But nearly one year later, Olesya learned that there had been a mistake: she had been given the wrong body to bury.