Eva Bartlett

Eva Bartlett is a Canadian independent journalist and activist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and occupied Palestine, where she lived for nearly four years. She is a recipient of the 2017 International Journalism Award for International Reporting, granted by the Mexican Journalists’ Press Club (founded in 1951), was the first recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism, and was short-listed in 2017 for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. See her extended bio on her blog In Gaza. She tweets at @EvaKBartlett

The Caesar Act: The Latest Western Attack on Syria Didn’t Drop From a Plane

As Syria struggles to recover from over a decade of US-imposed conflict, it faces a new deadly threat in the form of sweeping sanctions under the Caesar Act.

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Syria Disabled Feature photo

Talib Mu'alla served as a soldier in the Syrian Arab Army before he was wounded in Aleppo in 2014. As he described the multiple shots he took to his body, I thought it remarkable that he survived. “A shot (bullet) to my chest, a shot to my stomach, three shots in my spine. My chest, stomach, and intestines ruptured, and I lost a kidney. I was

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Acusado de traición y encarcelado sin juicio: el periodista Kirill Vyshinsky cuenta su terrible momento en una prisión ucraniana

Eva Bartlett se sentó con el recientemente publicado periodista ucraniano Kirill Vyshinsky. Vyshinsky soportó 15 meses de pésimas condiciones en una prisión de Ucrania después de ser acusado falsamente de traición.

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Kirill Vyshinsky

  In November 2018, I became aware of the case of Kirill Vyshinsky, a Ukrainian-Russian journalist and editor imprisoned in Ukraine without trial since May 2018, accused of high treason.  Soon after, I interviewed Vyshinsky via email. He described his arrest and the accusations against him as politically-motivated, “an attempt by the

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Under Fire from Ukraine and Misperceived by the West, The People of the DPR Share Their Stories

Eva Bartlett traveled to the besieged Donetsk People’s Republic to see firsthand how residents are faring amidst a western-backed Ukrainian incursion.

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Donbass War Diary Feature photo

On September 2, I left the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don via minibus heading northwest to the border of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and on into Donetsk. For my first few days there, I rented an inexpensive apartment in the heart of the city. Walking on a long tree-lined and cafe-filled pedestrian walkway, life seemed normal. But I

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Regreso a Rusia: los delincuentes cuentan la verdadera historia del referéndum de 2014 y sus vidas desde

Eva Bartlett viajó a Crimea para ver de primera mano cómo les fue a los crimeos desde 2014 cuando su país se reunió con Rusia, y cómo fue realmente el referéndum.

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Crimea Feature photo

SIMFEROPOL, CRIMEA -- In early August I traveled to Russia for the first time, partly out of interest in seeing some of the vast country with a tourist's eyes, partly to do some journalism in the region. It also transpired that while in Moscow I was able to interview Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry. High on my travel list,

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MintPress se sienta con la portavoz del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Rusia, Maria Zakharova

La portavoz del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Rusia, Maria Zakharova, analiza las protestas en Siria, Crimea, Moscú y más.

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Maria Zakharova Interview Feature photo

  Moscow -- In a simple meeting room at the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry building, Russia's Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova gave me a generous hour of her time in a conversation peppered with bemused laughter at Western allegations about Russia and clear frustration at the West's incessant vilification of all

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A Syrian Leader Tells His Country’s Story: An Interview with SAA General Hassan Hassan

Eva Bartlett sits down for an exclusive interview with the head of the Syrian Arab Army’s Political Administration, General Hassan Hassan.

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Syria General Hassan Hassan

For years, international headlines spotlighting Syria have claimed that the Syrian government, army, and its allies were guilty of a variety of atrocities. Yet as time has passed, many of the accusations levied at government and its allies have been shown to have been either falsified, staged (as in the case of allegations of chemical attacks in

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Voces desde el reportaje de los medios de comunicación corporativos de Rukban Refugee Camp en Siria

Eva Bartlett visitó a los refugiados en Siria que escaparon de las horribles condiciones en el Campo de Refugiados de Rukban, un puesto de avanzada desolado en la zona de descontaminación administrada por los Estados Unidos. Lo que encontró fue muy diferente a la "realidad" representada por la prensa occidental.

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AD-DUMAYR, SYRIA -- A little over a year ago -- just after the Syrian army and its allies liberated the towns and villages around eastern Ghouta from the myriad armed jihadist groups that had waged a brutal campaign of torture and executions in the area -- I interviewed a number of the civilians that had endured life under jihadist rule in Douma,

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