Documentaries
A portfolio of reports filmed and edited by Elizaveta Vereykina over the years while working for BBC News and The Barents Observer.
Social media videos
Reports filmed for the BBC
Navalny protests: Hundreds in Moscow detained by police
Hundreds of demonstrators in Moscow have been detained by police during unauthorised protests to demand the release of the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Filmed and edited by Elizaveta Vereykina
Norway’s spy town: ‘They took him and they have broken him’
The wife of a Norwegian pensioner convicted of espionage in Russia has told the BBC that she blames her country’s intelligence service for putting a civilian at risk – and called on Norway’s government to do everything in its power to bring him home.
Reporter: Sarah Rainsford
Filmed and edited: Elizaveta Vereykina
Russian soldier’s mum speaks out against war in Ukraine
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, thousands of civilians have been killed and millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes. But back home, there are consequences too, for the families of Russian servicemen who have been sent into battle. A Russian soldier’s mother has shared her story about what she thinks of the Kremlin’s “special military operation”.
Filmed and edited by Elizaveta Vereykina
Coronavirus: The Russian provinces buckling under Covid-19
Covid-19 infection rates are now surging again in Russia and this time the poorer provinces are being hit the hardest. In northern regions like Arkhangelsk patients have been forced to sleep on benches and in corridors and ambulance crews are overwhelmed.
Filmed, edited and produced by Elizaveta Vereykina
‘Scent of terror’ created in protest against Moscow perfume store
How would you like a perfume that smelt of terror? A team in Moscow has created the putrid scent, in a protest against plans for a perfume store in a historic building with a terrible past. The former military court saw thousands of people condemned to death during Stalin’s Great Terror in the 1930s.
Correspondent: Sarah Rainsford
Filmed and edited by Elizaveta Vereykina
Russia domestic abuse: ‘My husband chopped off my hands’
In December 2017, Margarita Gracheva’s husband took her into a forest and cut her hands off with an axe. Her case has highlighted activists’ fears that the softening of Russia’s laws applying to domestic violence may be emboldening abusers.
Produced, filmed and edited by Elizaveta Vereykina
Russia’s reluctant teen activist: ‘Mum’s house arrest changed my life’
In 2019, Russian opposition activist Anastastia Shevchenko was placed under house arrest in southern Russia. The case has transformed life for her 15-year-old daughter, Vlada, who now runs a popular blog about her mother’s arrest and attends events to speak on her behalf. Anastasia, a single mum, is facing up to six years behind bars, and the teenager no longer sees a life for herself outside politics.
Video by Sarah Rainsford and Elizaveta Vereykina.