Vladimir Putin's next war is being waged against Russia's independent media
2 years, 9 months ago

Vladimir Putin's next war is being waged against Russia's independent media

ABC  

For the past 18 years, Russian journalist Tania Felgengauer has tried to expose the truth about Vladimir Putin and his administration, but last week the Moscow radio station she works for was silenced. "It was a political decision of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin … he decided to shut them down as many other professional and free media." He believes the new laws that threaten 15 years in prison for "fake news" about the armed forces will stop many Russians from finding out what is really going on in the war in Ukraine. Meduza's original business model was undermined by the Kremlin last year when it declared the publication a "foreign agent", making it virtually impossible to get Russian advertisers. Kovalyov said it was important that independent media keep fighting, to counter what he called "state media propaganda" and to hold Vladimir Putin to account.

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‘Guerrilla projects’: Russia revels in US allegations of media warfare
3 months, 1 week ago

‘Guerrilla projects’: Russia revels in US allegations of media warfare

Al Jazeera  

Public figures close to President Putin goad Washington after the DoJ alleged that RT is puppeteering social media influencers. Last week, the United States Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing a Tennessee-based company, believed to be Tenet Media, of accepting millions of dollars from the Russian state-owned media outlet RT and promoting “pro-Russia propaganda and disinformation across social media …

Deputy editor of Putin’s favourite newspaper ‘found dead just one year after boss’
1 year ago

Deputy editor of Putin’s favourite newspaper ‘found dead just one year after boss’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The deputy editor of Russian …

Putin approves new media restrictions ahead of presidential election
1 year, 1 month ago

Putin approves new media restrictions ahead of presidential election

Al Jazeera  

Media barred from reporting on election body’s actions at military bases or areas under martial law without clearance. Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved changes to a law that will curtail media coverage of next year’s presidential election, according to local news agencies. New media restrictions The changes Putin greenlighted limit coverage of Central Election Commission sessions to registered media …

Former Russian state TV journalist gets 8 1/2-year sentence in absentia for Ukraine war criticism
1 year, 2 months ago

Former Russian state TV journalist gets 8 1/2-year sentence in absentia for Ukraine war criticism

Associated Press  

A Moscow court on Wednesday sentenced a former state TV journalist 8 1/2 years in prison in absentia for protesting Russia’s war in Ukraine, the latest in a crackdown on dissent that has intensified since the invasion began nearly 20 months ago. Marina Ovsyannikova was charged with spreading false information about the Russian army, a criminal offense under a law …

While world media speculates on Wagner chief’s presumed death, Russian state media shies away
1 year, 4 months ago

While world media speculates on Wagner chief’s presumed death, Russian state media shies away

Associated Press  

LONDON — While news that Russia’s Wagner mercenary chief was believed dead in a plane crash dominated world reports Thursday, along with speculation that it was linked to his June mutiny, Russian state media painted a very different picture. Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose brief march on Moscow was seen as the biggest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 23-year-rule, …

‘It’s all a lie’: Russians are trapped in Putin’s parallel universe. But some want out
1 year, 9 months ago

‘It’s all a lie’: Russians are trapped in Putin’s parallel universe. But some want out

CNN  

CNN — One year ago, when Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine and began Europe’s biggest land war since 1945, it waged another battle at home – intensifying its information blockade in an effort to control the hearts and minds of its own citizens. In the days leading up to last Friday’s one-year anniversary of the full-scale invasion – …

Ukraine-Russia: A prolonged propaganda war
2 years, 6 months ago

Ukraine-Russia: A prolonged propaganda war

Al Jazeera  

Four months since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we look at how Russian media is spinning a new war narrative. Ukraine – and the Kremlin’s special media operation that has Russian journalists under control. Contributors: Anthony Borden – CEO, Institute for War and Peace Reporting Andrei Soldatov – Editor-In-Chief, Agentura.ru, investigative journalist Mariia Zolkina – Head of Regional Security and Conflict …

Is free speech a casualty of the Ukraine war? America's commissars crack down on dissent
2 years, 8 months ago

Is free speech a casualty of the Ukraine war? America's commissars crack down on dissent

Salon  

The ruling class, made up of the traditional elites that run the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, is employing draconian forms of censorship on its right-wing and left-wing critics in a desperate effort to cling to power. I have been stamped by the false label "Russian State Media," which I never had, by the way, when I was presenting …

Meduza editor: ‘Russia’s state media is terrifyingly effective’
2 years, 8 months ago

Meduza editor: ‘Russia’s state media is terrifyingly effective’

Al Jazeera  

The media landscape in Russia had plenty of press freedom challenges before the war in Ukraine but has since turned even darker. Most of them, from my experience working in the state news media, don’t really put much thought into what they’re doing or why. Could it be argued that it’s counterproductive, that Western audiences might want to see what …

Who are the everyday Russians rallying behind Putin’s war?
2 years, 8 months ago

Who are the everyday Russians rallying behind Putin’s war?

Al Jazeera  

A recent survey by the independent pollster Levada showed more than 80 percent support the Russian military’s actions in Ukraine. “After the coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014, which took place with the participation of the United States, the country came under external control,” she told Al Jazeera, referring to the Maidan revolution that led to the removal of then-President …

Russia-Ukraine war: In Chinese media, the US is the villain
2 years, 8 months ago

Russia-Ukraine war: In Chinese media, the US is the villain

Al Jazeera  

In tightly-controlled media space, conflict is an opportunity for Beijing to advance its ‘information proxy war’. “We should understand information as part of that,” said David Bandurski, co-director of the China Media Project, who noted that there is a long history of cooperation between Chinese state outlets and Russian agencies such as Sputnik and Russia Today. State outlets cite Kremlin …

Peace talks and propaganda: Russia’s war on Ukraine continues
2 years, 8 months ago

Peace talks and propaganda: Russia’s war on Ukraine continues

Al Jazeera  

Zelenskyy talks directly to Russian reporters, and Putin’s promised scaling back of the war fails to materialise. A new front opened up in the war in Ukraine this past week – a diplomatic one. Contributors: Eilish Hart – Senior news editor, Meduza English Ilya Yablokov – Lecturer in journalism and digital media, University of Sheffield Katia Patin – Multimedia editor, …

Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper suspends activity after warning
2 years, 8 months ago

Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper suspends activity after warning

Al Jazeera  

The investigative paper said it was suspending its activities until the end of Russia’s ‘special operation’ in Ukraine. Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper, whose editor Dmitry Muratov was a co-winner of last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has said it was suspending its online and print activities until the end of Russia’s “special operation” in Ukraine. “For us, and I know, for …

Russian journalist killed by shelling in Kyiv: Bosses slam 'war crime'
2 years, 9 months ago

Russian journalist killed by shelling in Kyiv: Bosses slam 'war crime'

Daily Mail  

KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian journalist has been killed by shelling in Kyiv on a reporting assignment. The independent Russian news outlet The Insider said that Oksana Baulina was killed Wednesday when she was documenting the damage of a Russian shelling of the Podil district of the capital and came under a new strike. It said it will continue to …

Moscow journalist Marina Ovsyannikova says 'It's Putin's war, not Russian people's war'
2 years, 9 months ago

Moscow journalist Marina Ovsyannikova says 'It's Putin's war, not Russian people's war'

Daily Mail  

Moscow journalist Marina Ovsyannikova said her decision to go on live state-run TV to decry propaganda was spontaneous and that she wanted to remind the world 'it's Putin's war, not Russian people's war.' Moscow journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, 43, gave her first interview to American media on Sunday, speaking to George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week Ovsyannikova, a worker at Russia's …

Russian journalists are quitting state-media after journalist Marina Ovsyannikova flashed anti-war sign live on air
2 years, 9 months ago

Russian journalists are quitting state-media after journalist Marina Ovsyannikova flashed anti-war sign live on air

The Independent  

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Marina Ovsyannikova: Russian state TV journalist says it was ‘impossible to stay silent’
2 years, 9 months ago

Marina Ovsyannikova: Russian state TV journalist says it was ‘impossible to stay silent’

CNN  

London CNN Business — The Russian state television journalist who took a dramatic stand against President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine during a live broadcast says it was “impossible to stay silent” and that she wants the world to know that many Russians are against the invasion. Marina Ovsyannikova told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday that many Russian journalists see …

How is the media viewing Russia’s war in Ukraine?
2 years, 9 months ago

How is the media viewing Russia’s war in Ukraine?

Al Jazeera  

Competing narratives fight for coverage in print, on air and online. Images of destruction and civilian suffering in Ukraine have dominated headlines worldwide since Russia invaded on February 24, as both sides have accused the other of promoting disinformation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has become a highly visible presence throughout the Western world, largely due to informal social media videos …

Two Fox journalists killed in Ukraine, underscoring dangers
2 years, 9 months ago

Two Fox journalists killed in Ukraine, underscoring dangers

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A veteran videographer and a 24-year-old Ukrainian journalist working for Fox News were both killed when their vehicle came under fire outside of Kyiv, the network said on Tuesday. Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, and Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova were traveling Monday in Horenka with Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall, who remains hospitalized. “Today is a heartbreaking day for Fox …

Russian editor who protested war on TV appears in court - reports
2 years, 9 months ago

Russian editor who protested war on TV appears in court - reports

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The sign read: “No war, stop the war, don’t …

Russian journalists quit their jobs on pro-Kremlin TV after anti-war presenter goes into hiding
2 years, 9 months ago

Russian journalists quit their jobs on pro-Kremlin TV after anti-war presenter goes into hiding

Daily Mail  

More big names were reported to have quit pro-Kremlin TV tonight as the brutal war in Ukraine took its toll. Heroic protestor Marina Ovsyannikova, who yesterday interrupted Russia's most-watched news show live on air to denounce the war in Ukraine, has disappeared since being detained and has no access to legal representation Ovsyannikova, 43, was arrested yesterday following her brave …

Fears for Russian TV protest heroine who has 'gone missing'
2 years, 9 months ago

Fears for Russian TV protest heroine who has 'gone missing'

Daily Mail  

Heroic protestor Marina Ovsyannikova, who yesterday interrupted Russia's most-watched news show live on air to denounce the war in Ukraine, has disappeared since being detained and has no access to legal representation. Heroic protestor Marina Ovsyannikova, who yesterday interrupted Russia's most-watched news show live on air to denounce the war in Ukraine, has disappeared since being detained and has no …

Russian State TV protest 'sent shockwaves through all of Russian society' says American on the ground
2 years, 9 months ago

Russian State TV protest 'sent shockwaves through all of Russian society' says American on the ground

Raw Story  

Yakov Kronrod went back to Russia to care for his mother months before the invasion of Ukraine, so he was on the ground watching as a Channel One editor took the bold move to stage a protest on live television. Marina Ovsyannikova, the editor of Channel One, held up a sign saying that Russians were being lied to and not …

Anti-war activist interrupts live Russian state TV news show
2 years, 9 months ago

Anti-war activist interrupts live Russian state TV news show

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A live evening news program on Russia’s state television channel was interrupted Monday by a person who walked into the studio holding a poster protesting the war in Ukraine. Russia’s state TV regularly amplifies the government line that says troops entered Ukraine to save people from “neo-Nazis” and to defend Russians from a country that was preparing …

Marina Ovsyannikova: Russian TV journalist who protested Ukraine war on-air turns up in court
2 years, 9 months ago

Marina Ovsyannikova: Russian TV journalist who protested Ukraine war on-air turns up in court

CNN  

New York CNN Business — A Russian state television journalist who protested the invasion of Ukraine during a live news broadcast was found guilty Tuesday of organizing an “unauthorized public event.” A district court in Moscow said in a statement that Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at Channel One, had been found guilty of the “administrative offense” and had been fined …

Russia-Ukraine war: Fox News video journalist killed in Kyiv after vehicle struck
2 years, 9 months ago

Russia-Ukraine war: Fox News video journalist killed in Kyiv after vehicle struck

India TV News  

Highlights Video journalist for Fox News was killed in Ukraine after his vehicle came under fire Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, had covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria for Fox Zakrzewski, who was based in London, was the second journalist killed in Ukraine in two days A video journalist for Fox News was killed in Ukraine when the vehicle he was …

Censorship, arrests, shutdowns: Putin crushes Russian media
2 years, 9 months ago

Censorship, arrests, shutdowns: Putin crushes Russian media

Al Jazeera  

Having taken the country to war, Putin is also pushing it into an information black hole. Russia is experiencing a Stalinesque crackdown on reporting that smacks of the Soviet era; the mere mention of the word “war” in relation to Ukraine can now land journalists in prison for up to 15 years. Contributors: Michael Nacke – Journalist & vlogger Jason …

Why Russia is losing the news and information war in Ukraine
2 years, 9 months ago

Why Russia is losing the news and information war in Ukraine

LA Times  

Weaponizing all manner of media is a specialty of Vladimir Putin’s, but now, two weeks into his unprovoked attack on Ukraine, Russia’s president is losing the information war. The report was picked up by outlets around the globe, and journalists arrived on the scene, accelerating the story’s spread on social media and adding to a mountain of visual and audio …

Russia blocks news sites over Ukraine war coverage: Rights group
2 years, 9 months ago

Russia blocks news sites over Ukraine war coverage: Rights group

Al Jazeera  

Russian authorities have blocked several independent media outlets including news site Mediazona as the Kremlin seeks to control coverage of its war in Ukraine, a rights group has said. Authorities have blocked a number of digital media outlets, including Mediazona, Republic, Snob.ru and Agentstvo, said the digital rights group Roskomsvoboda on Sunday. The group said the independent media had been …

Russia cracks down on dissenting media, blocks Facebook
2 years, 9 months ago

Russia cracks down on dissenting media, blocks Facebook

Associated Press  

DUSSELDORF, Germany — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday intensified a crackdown on media outlets and individuals who fail to hew to the Kremlin line on Russia’s war in Ukraine, blocking Facebook and Twitter and signing into law a bill that criminalizes the intentional spreading of what Moscow deems to be “fake” reports. “The question has to be how do …

Russia cracks down on dissenting media, blocks Facebook
2 years, 9 months ago

Russia cracks down on dissenting media, blocks Facebook

Associated Press  

DUSSELDORF, Germany — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday intensified a crackdown on media outlets and individuals who fail to hew to the Kremlin line on Russia’s war in Ukraine, blocking Facebook and Twitter and signing into law a bill that criminalizes the intentional spreading of what Moscow deems to be “fake” reports. “The question has to be how do …

Russian media outlets close as Moscow cracks down
2 years, 9 months ago

Russian media outlets close as Moscow cracks down

CNN  

London CNN Business — The number of independent media voices Russians can read and watch is dropping fast. On Friday, lawmakers approved a law criminalizing the spread of “fake” information that discredits the Russian armed forces or calls for sanctions against the country, state media agencies reported. On Tuesday, Dzyadko told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that “they don’t want us to …

Russia to punish ‘fake’ war news, blocks Facebook and Twitter
2 years, 9 months ago

Russia to punish ‘fake’ war news, blocks Facebook and Twitter

LA Times  

Russian authorities have blocked access to foreign media that publish in Russian, including the BBC, whose London headquarters are shown. Russian authorities have repeatedly decried reports of Russian military setbacks or civilian deaths in Ukraine as “fake news.” State media outlets refer to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “special military operation” rather than a “war” or an “invasion.” Vyacheslav …

Psaki slams Putin’s ‘assault on media and truth’ in Russia as police storm offices of independent TV channel
2 years, 9 months ago

Psaki slams Putin’s ‘assault on media and truth’ in Russia as police storm offices of independent TV channel

The Independent  

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Russia’s top radio station shut amid crackdown on dissent
2 years, 9 months ago

Russia’s top radio station shut amid crackdown on dissent

Associated Press  

MOSCOW — Russia’s top independent radio station was closed Thursday and a leading independent TV station has suspended its operations as Russian authorities moved forcefully to stifle criticism of the country’s invasion of Ukraine. With many other independent news outlets shut amid a relentless government crackdown on opposition activists and independent media in recent years, the station was the most …

Liberal Russia TV, radio channels suspend operations over Ukraine
2 years, 9 months ago

Liberal Russia TV, radio channels suspend operations over Ukraine

Al Jazeera  

Liberal Russian television channel TV Rain has said it is stopping work temporarily after being ordered to close by authorities due to its broadcasts on Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Earlier on Thursday, Ekho Moskvy radio station, one of Russia’s last remaining liberal media outlets, was also dissolved by its board after coming under pressure over its coverage of the war …

Amid war, a critical Russian radio station goes silent
2 years, 9 months ago

Amid war, a critical Russian radio station goes silent

Al Jazeera  

Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect identities. In the days since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine on February 24, officials have begun a crackdown on independent media and protesters who have come out in their thousands to decry the war, which the Kremlin will only term as a “special operation”. A statement …

Russia-Ukraine war news updates: Twitter to label tweets linked to Russian state media
2 years, 9 months ago

Russia-Ukraine war news updates: Twitter to label tweets linked to Russian state media

India Today  

Twitter will put warnings on tweets sharing links to Russian state-affiliated media, the platform said Monday, as Kremlin-tied outlets are accused of spreading misinformation about Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. Twitter will put warnings on tweets sharing links to Russian state-affiliated media, the platform said Monday, as Kremlin-tied outlets are accused of spreading misinformation on Moscow's invasion of Ukraine https://t.co/6LduqubqRW — …

Russia cracks down on media for reporting 'invasion', accuses media of spreading lies about Ukraine conflict
2 years, 9 months ago

Russia cracks down on media for reporting 'invasion', accuses media of spreading lies about Ukraine conflict

ABC  

Russia's communications regulator has ordered independent media to remove reports describing Moscow's attack on Ukraine as an "assault, invasion, or declaration of war" or face being blocked and fined. Key points: The Russian communications watchdog accused a number of independent media outlets of spreading "unreliable socially significant untrue information" The regulator says media outlets will be blocked unless they stick …

Russian regulator warns local media over coverage of Ukraine war
2 years, 9 months ago

Russian regulator warns local media over coverage of Ukraine war

Al Jazeera  

Journalists labelled as ‘foreign agents’, outlets told they will be blocked unless they remove ‘unreliable information’. Russia’s communications regulator has ordered media outlets in the country to remove reports describing the continuing attack on Ukraine as an “assault, invasion, or declaration of war” – or face being blocked and fined. In a statement on Saturday, Roskomnadzor accused several independent media …

Russia outlaws publisher of investigative media outlet
3 years, 5 months ago

Russia outlaws publisher of investigative media outlet

Associated Press  

MOSCOW — Russian authorities on Thursday outlawed the publisher of an investigative media outlet and listed its journalists as “foreign agents,” the latest move in a series of steps to raise pressure on independent media. The Prosecutor General’s office outlawed Project Media Inc. the U.S.-based publisher of Proekt, as an “undesirable” organization, charging that it “poses a threat to the …

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