Paulina Milewska and Ksenia Mironova are journalists from Poland and Russia, respectively. Milewska is a former reporter at Warsaw’s Gazeta Wyborcza and is currently pursuing her PhD on legal threats against journalists (SLAPPs) at the European University Institute in Florence. Mironova previously worked at Moscow’s TV Rain and is now an independent reporter living in exile. She is the founder of an organization that supports the families of Russian political prisoners and Ukrainian detainees.