Hope, despair, apathy, rage… What does it take to run an independent media outlet under an authoritarian regime? What is the emotional toll of journalistic work in such a climate? And what feelings arise for readers confronted with the raw, unsettling truth? These are the questions explored by Polina Aronson, sociologist and Affective Societies’s public relations officer, in a conversation with Galina Timchenko, publisher of the leading Russian-language independent media platform Meduza…