Chuck Darwin<p>Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on May 5 announced that it had facilitated Russian journalist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ekaterina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ekaterina</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barabash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barabash</span></a>'s escape from Russia to France.</p><p>"I fled — I had no other choice. <br>Journalism no longer exists in Russia," Barabash told reporters in Paris on May 5.</p><p>Barabash escaped house arrest on April 21. </p><p>She was placed under house arrest by a Moscow court for posting "fake news" on her Facebook account about the war in Ukraine, <br>her son Yurii Barabash said on Feb. 27.</p><p>RSF held a press conference alongside Barabash at its headquarters in Paris, announcing her whereabouts for the first time since she escaped house arrest on April 21<br><a href="https://kyivindependent.com/reporters-without-borders-exfiltrates-russian-journalist-and-outspoken-war-critic-who-escaped-house-arrest/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kyivindependent.com/reporters-</span><span class="invisible">without-borders-exfiltrates-russian-journalist-and-outspoken-war-critic-who-escaped-house-arrest/</span></a></p>