From the Russian Front Line, With Love. The Odyssey of Johnee.

Cafe’s Locked Out Mailing List · Nov 23, 2025 · 2h 8m

I was at an 8:23 Gathering in Mullumbimby when a man with a strange accent approached me. He’d been in town complaining that no media outlet would listen to his story. Someone local told him we were in town, so he came to check us out and then showed up at the gathering.

Eighteen months ago, he returned here after spending two years in Russia — right on the front lines.He calls himself a Peace Correspondent. He was there to interview ordinary people, to understand how they were coping with this long war, and to show — from street level — what life is like under constant bombardment.He is not…