"How to talk about the war?"

History and myth in Russian schools, from Novaya Gazeta

In times of Russian war I read a newspaper called Novaya Gazeta.  Its editor, Dmitri Muratov, won the Nobel Peace Prize last year (along with Maria Ressa).  Muratov dedicated it to the memory of the reporters of the journal who have been murdered for their work.

Its journalists go to the front when that is humanly possible.  Much of what we know about th…