The Information Front
Forbes boasts roughly 40 independent editions around the world, the vast majority published in the local language. I’ve had the pleasure to work with great editors from Vienna to Vietnam, India to Israel. But I’ve never been as honored to call journalists colleagues as with the staff of Forbes Ukraine. Given Vladimir Putin’s brutal, immoral invasion, the Forbes Ukraine team would be perfectly justified to focus on the safety of their families. Instead, they chose to fight. A few literally: The 30-year-old who previously oversaw fact-checking, Maksym Skubenko, enlisted in the defense force despite no military experience. “I don’t know what is happening,” Skubenko said after his first battle. “I just absolutely know I have to be here.” Most of the two dozen other journalists combat Putin with a weapon he dreads:…