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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A top exec at Russia's state-owned Channel One addressed the on-air protest against the Ukraine war. </li><li><keyword id="13398474" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="marina-ovsyannikova" source="Orion">Marina Ovsyannikova</keyword> said Russian media was pushing lies about the invasion.</li></ul>Russia's state-owned Channel One network accused the producer who staged an on-air protest against the Ukraine invasion of colluding with the UK to betray her country.Kirill Kleimyonov, head of Channel One's news division, claimed in Monday on-air remarks that Marina Ovsyannikova had been in contact with the UK embassy before her protest, and that she "betrayed [her] country and all of us.""Marina Ovsyannikova spoke with the British embassy. Who of you has ever negotiated with a foreign embassy? Not with the visa center, but with the embassy, with its employee — even if he, as they say, is in civilian clothes. I, for one, never did," Kleimyonov said, without providing evidence for his claim."I mean to call a spade a spade, that's all. An emotional outburst is one thing, but betrayal is quite another.""And when a person betrays her country and at the same time all of us — people with whom she worked side by side for almost 20 years — betrays in a cold, calculated way, for a firmly agreed bonus," he said, again without providing evidence for his claim that she financially benefitted from the protest."Betrayal is always a personal choice, you can't save a person from it, as you know. But it is imperative to call a spade a spade," he said.Ovsyannikova's attorney and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.Ovsyannikova <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/protestor-interrupts-russian-state-broadcast-shouting-no-war-2022-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">interrupted a live broadcast on the Ukraine invasion</a> holding up a sign that said "Don't believe the propaganda" and "They are lying to you here" in Russian, and "No war" in English.Russian officials accused her of staging an "unauthorized" demonstration, and she was fined 30,000 rubles ($280) for the protest. There are concerns that she could face further criminal charges.<keyword id="12241398" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russian-state-media" source="Orion">Russian state media</keyword> has long been tightly controlled by the Kremlin, with journalists rarely deviating from the official line promoted by the government. The Russian media has echoed Russian President Vladimir Putin in portraying the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine as a mission to "denazify" the country. A recent bill also outlawed describing the conflict as a "war," compelling many foreign media outlets to leave the country. Putin also alleged in a speech last week that "fifth columnist" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGqp5SPWgsA">traitors in Russia were seeking to betray the country.</a>Ovsyannikova, who has since left her job at Channel One, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/putins-war-russian-peoples-war-marina-ovsyannikova/story?id=83552852">told ABC News</a> on Sunday that she held the protest to expose how Russian state media was feeding the Russian public falsehoods about the war. "I could show to the Russian people that this is just propaganda, expose this propaganda for what it is and maybe stimulate some people to speak up against the war," she said.Ovsyannikova also said French President Emmanuel Macron had offered her political asylum, but she refused the offer."I am very worried for the safety of my children, first and foremost. And I'm very grateful to Mr. Macron for his offer, but I have publicly refused to take political asylum in France because I am a patriot," she said."And now I believe in the history of my country. The times are very dark and very difficult, and every person who has a civil position who wants to make that civil position known must speak up." Translations by Oleksandr Vynogradov.

Russian state media accuses producer who staged anti-war protest of being a traitor who plotted with the UK

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Russian journalists spoke to independent outlet Meduza about state <keyword id="11915774" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="propaganda" source="Orion">propaganda</keyword> and Ukraine. </li><li>Many know they are being made to parrot lies about the conflict. </li></ul>Journalists working at Russian state TV news outlets are uneasy about promoting Kremlin propaganda on the war in Ukraine, but fear the consequences if they rebel, according to a report. <a href="https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/03/16/everyone-knows-they-re-lying">Speaking to Meduza</a>, unnamed sources described the mood inside official outlets where reporters repeat Russian propaganda on the invasion of Ukraine while knowing it to be untrue.Russian outlets are required by law to refer to the invasion as a "special military operation" rather than a war, and repeat false Kremlin claims that no civilians are being harmed, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.Meduza is run from neighboring Latvia, meaning it is not subject to the same restrictions.Its report came after <keyword id="13398474" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="marina-ovsyannikova" source="Orion">Marina Ovsyannikova</keyword>, a producer at Russia's Channel One, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-state-tv-worker-staged-live-anti-war-protest-fined-2022-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">interrupted a live broadcast on Monday</a> by running onto set with a sign saying "no war" and "they are lying to you here."From the beginning of the war, "all the staff at Channel One have been on edge," a source with close ties to the network told Meduza."Everyone, without exception, knows that they're lying. Right there in the studio, they've got monitors showing reports from Reuters and AP, while they're getting guidelines and scripted stories from higher up that are utterly divorced from reality," the source said.Reuters and AP are western outlets giving accurate information on the attack that isn't altered to fit Russia's narrative.A source told Meduza that Ovsyannikova's protest did not overtly change much at Channel One and that "people are working, and there have been no new instructions from above."Another source, with connections at two other major state-owned outlets, told Meduza that well-informed journalists were desperately trying to exempt their relatives from military service in Ukraine, even while giving a picture steady Russia success to viewers.The duplicity was causing "huge psychological trauma" for the journalists, the source said.Elena Afanasyeva, who Meduza said worked as a Channel One manager until last year, told the outlet that many staff "can't leave or are afraid to leave because they've got kids or parents to look after, they've got mortgages, their savings are decimated, or they fear unemployment and being blacklisted."Some, she said, genuinely believe the Kremlin line and do not want to stop.Russia has launched a sweeping crackdown on the media and free speech in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, with using the term "war" to describe <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-journalist-stays-to-report-despite-putins-new-censorship-law-2022-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">the war punishable by up to 15 years in prison.</a> The new censorship law compelled many foreign news organisations to suspend their operations in Russia to protect staff from reprisals.Many of the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-prosecutors-demand-restricted-access-radio-station-tv-2022-03-01/">country's remaining independent news outlets</a> have been shuttered amid government pressure, and access to the internet restricted as the Kremlin seeks to place a stranglehold on the information its citizens can access.Ovsyannikova in a video Tuesday said she had been interrogated for 14 hours without sleep and without access to legal representation after her protest. She has been fined 30,000 rubles ($280) for holding an "unauthorized public event" and it is unclear of she will face further charges.

Russian state TV reporters know they are lying to viewers and are starting to question their life choices, report says

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A former Russian journalist who criticized the invasion of Ukraine escaped her house arrest, Russia said.</li><li>Marina Ovsyannikova protested on live TV, and also held up a sign opposite the Kremlin.</li></ul>A Russian journalist who protested the invasion of Ukraine, including live on state TV, is now on a wanted list after authorities said she escaped her house arrest and fled.Marina Ovsyannikova repeatedly criticized Russia's invasion, including holding up a sign on live TV and posting on social media, and was punished by Russia.She was put under two months of pre-trial house arrest in August after she was charged with spreading fake news about Russia's armed forces, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-state-tv-protester-gets-two-months-house-arrest-2022-08-11/">Reuters reported at the time</a>.That charge came not from the TV incident, but from standing on a riverbank opposite the Kremlin with a sign that called Russian President Vladimir Putin a murderer, and Russian soldiers fascists, according to Reuters.Russia's Interior Ministry said on Monday that she had fled and had taken her 11-year-old daughter with her, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/03/marina-ovsyannikova-russia-house-arrest-ukraine/">The Washington Post</a> reported.The Interior Ministry put her on its wanted list in response.Russian state media RT quoted Ovsyannikova's ex-husband as saying: "Last night, my ex-wife left the place that the court assigned her for house arrest and, together with my 11-year-old daughter, fled in an unknown direction," Reuters reported.No other details about her apparent escape are available.Ovsyannikova could have been sentenced to 10 years in prison if found guilty, Reuters reported.She made headlines around the world when she protested the invasion live on Russian state TV in March.She <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/marina-ovsyannikova-russian-journalist-who-stormed-state-broadcast-fined-2022-7">went onto the live broadcast</a> of Russian state TV channel Channel One — where she worked at the time — and held up a sign that said "Don't believe the propaganda," and "They are lying to you here."She also shouted: "Stop the war! No to war! Stop the war! No to war!"For her on-air protest, Ovsyannikova was <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/15/marina-ovsyannikova-journalist-fined-for-ukraine-war-protest-on-russia-tv.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fined 30,000 rubles in March</a>, which was worth around $280 at the time. She was also fired from her job.She was further <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/a-russian-journalist-who-once-stormed-a-live-state-tv-broadcast-to-protest-the-ukraine-war-was-fined-820-for-discrediting-the-army/articleshow/93203493.cms">fined</a> $820 in July after being charged with discrediting the nation's army on social media.Ovsyannikova <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/16/media/marina-ovsyannikova-amanpour/index.html">told CNN</a> in March, after her live TV protest, that she did it because it was "impossible to stay silent."She <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-journalist-stormed-news-broadcast-impossible-to-stay-silent-2022-3">said</a>: I realized we would have to do something, or we will reach a point of no return, and it will be more and more difficult to do anything."

The Russian journalist who protested on live TV is on Russia's wanted list after she escaped house arrest and fled, authorities say

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Russian court fined former TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova for her anti-war social media posts.</li><li>In March, she burst onto a live TV set with an anti-Ukraine war message emblazoned on a sign.</li></ul>Marina Ovsyannikova, a former Russian state TV journalist known for interrupting a live broadcast to protest the Ukraine war, was fined $820 this week on a charge of discrediting the nation's army on social media.A Moscow court ruled on Thursday that the Russian anchor broke the law by writing social media posts, in which she said those responsible for the invasion would find themselves on trial before an international tribunal, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-anti-war-protester-defies-court-trying-her-discrediting-army-2022-07-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters reported</a>.Ovsyannikova told the court that she didn't understand why she had been charged, and refused to withdraw her comments, Reuters reported. The Russian court also dismissed her lawyer's arguments that the journalist had the right to freedom of expression under <a href="https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/ch2.html#:~:text=Article%2029.,or%20language%20superiority%20is%20forbidden." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Article 29 of the Russian constitution</a>, per Reuters.Russia has cracked down on anti-war protests and online networks spreading information about the invasion of Ukraine since its attack began on February 24. In March, just weeks after the invasion kicked off, Russian President Vladimir Putin <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-critics-arrests.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a law that criminalized all opposition to the Ukraine war,</a> effectively banning the use of the word "war" to describe the conflict.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-legislature-pass-law-punish-false-information-ukraine-jail-time-2022-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russia also passed a law the same month that prohibits "discrediting"</a> its armed forces, making it a crime now punishable by up to 15 years in prison or a 5 million ruble fine — the charge that Ovsyannikova was convicted on."What's going on here is absurd," Ovsyannikova said in court, per Reuters. "War is horror, blood, and shame."She added that the court's accusations were akin to accusing her of "spreading monkeypox.""The purpose of the trial is to intimidate all the people who oppose the war in the Russian Federation," Ovsyannikova said. Maintaining her anti-war stance, she added that the war was "the biggest crime" ever perpetrated by the Russian government.The ex-editor said she would appeal the fine, and told journalists outside the court that authorities "haven't managed to intimidate me," <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62335914" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the BBC reported.</a>Ovsyannikova <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/protestor-interrupts-russian-state-broadcast-shouting-no-war-2022-3?inline-endstory-related-recommendations=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made headlines in March</a> after she burst onto a live broadcast of state-controlled Channel One — her employer — holding a sign that read "Don't believe the propaganda," and "They are lying to you here.""Stop the war! No to war! Stop the war! No to war!" she yelled over the anchor, before the channel cut away from the studio.<a href="https://t.co/nn5XWsh4Wn" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a>In <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/16/media/marina-ovsyannikova-amanpour/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview with CNN</a> at the time, Ovsyannikova said the Ukraine invasion reminded her of airstrikes in Chechnya as a child, making it "impossible to stay silent.""I have been feeling a cognitive dissonance, more and more, between my beliefs and what we say on air," <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-journalist-stormed-news-broadcast-impossible-to-stay-silent-2022-3">Ovsyannikova said on CNN</a>. "It was a brewing sense of dissatisfaction that kept increasing every year.""And I realized we would have to do something, or we will reach a point of no return, and it will be more and more difficult to do anything," she continued.For that on-air protest, Ovsyannikova was <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/15/marina-ovsyannikova-journalist-fined-for-ukraine-war-protest-on-russia-tv.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fined 30,000 rubles in March</a>, which was worth around $280 at the time.

A Russian journalist who once stormed a live state TV broadcast to protest the Ukraine war was fined $820 for 'discrediting' the army

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Marina Ovsyannikova crashed a live news broadcast on <keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword>'s Channel One with an anti-war banner.</li><li>Ukrainian President <keyword id="9393544" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="volodymyr-zelenskyy" source="Orion">Volodymyr Zelenskyy</keyword> thanked her and praised her courage.</li></ul>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised the Russian state TV <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/protestor-interrupts-russian-state-broadcast-shouting-no-war-2022-3">editor who stormed</a> a live news broadcast with an anti-war protest sign.On Monday, Marina Ovsyannikova walked behind the host during the "Vremya" news show on Channel One carrying a banner that said, "They are lying to you," and shouting, "Stop the war."After Ovsyannikova appeared on screen, the live feed cut to footage from a busy hallway. The state-run TASS Russian-state news agency <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/protestor-interrupts-russian-state-broadcast-shouting-no-war-2022-3">later reported</a> that Ovsyannikova was arrested.In an early Tuesday-morning <a href="https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vidpovidalnist-za-voyenni-zlochini-dlya-rosijskih-vijskovih-73561">video address</a>, Zelenskyy praised Ovsyannikova's courage."I am grateful to those Russians who do not stop trying to convey the truth. To those who fight disinformation and tell the truth, real facts to their friends and loved ones. And personally to the woman who entered the studio of Channel One with a poster against the war," he said.In a <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulSonne/status/1503504564309442561">prerecorded video</a>, Ovsyannikova explained her decision to speak out. She said she'd been "working on Kremlin propaganda" and was "very ashamed.""I am ashamed that I've allowed the lies to be said on the TV screens. I am ashamed that I let the Russian people be zombified," she said.Russian state-run media outlets <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-is-labeling-russian-state-owned-media-posts-over-ukraine-2022-3">are heavily censoring news</a> of Russia's invasion of <keyword id="11985141" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ukraine" source="Orion">Ukraine</keyword>. Earlier this month, President Vladimir Putin <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-legislature-pass-law-punish-false-information-ukraine-jail-time-2022-3">approved a law</a> that would effectively criminalize referring to the move as a war or invasion.Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin's spokesperson, described Ovsyannikova's protest as "hooliganism" on Tuesday, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-anti-war-protest-state-tv-was-hooliganism-2022-03-15/">Reuters</a> reported.The independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta covered the news of Ovsyannikova's protest but <a href="https://www.insider.com/independent-russian-news-censor-protested-against-war-state-tv-2022-3">blurred out</a> the text on her banner."A girl appeared with a poster, the full content of which we are forbidden to transfer," <a href="https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/03/14/foto-dnia-devushka-s-plakatom-v-efire-pervogo-kanala">Novaya Gazeta</a> reported on Monday, referring to the new media law.The Russian government refers to the invasion that began on February 24 as a "special military operation."During his speech on Tuesday, Zelenskyy also urged Russian soldiers to surrender."But why should you die? What for? I know that you want to survive. We hear your conversations in the intercepts. We hear what you really think about this senseless war, about this disgrace, and about your state. Your conversations with each other. Your calls home to your family. We hear it all. We draw conclusions. We know who you are," he said, without giving further specifics."On behalf of the Ukrainian people, I give you a chance," he continued. "Chance to survive. If you surrender to our forces, we will treat you the way people are supposed to be treated — as people, decently. In a way you were not treated in your army. And in a way your army does not treat ours. Choose!"

Zelenskyy thanked a Russian state TV journalist who stormed a live news broadcast with anti-war sign

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Marina Ovsyannikova was seen rushing onto the set of a Russian TV broadcast with an anti-war sign.</li><li>"The war was the point of no return, when it was simply impossible to stay silent," she told CNN.</li></ul>A Russian journalist who charged onto a state TV broadcast to <keyword id="11902710" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="protest" source="Orion">protest</keyword> the war in <keyword id="11985141" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ukraine" source="Orion">Ukraine</keyword> told CNN that she did so because she found it "impossible to stay silent." Maria Ovsyannikova, an editor at Russian state broadcaster Channel One, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/protestor-interrupts-russian-state-broadcast-shouting-no-war-2022-3?inline-endstory-related-recommendations=">ran onto the set and interrupted the network's broadcast on Monday, holding a sign telling viewers that they were being lied to</a>. "Stop the war! No to war! Stop the war! No to war!" Ovsyannikova <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1503444144206888962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1503444144206888962%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fprotestor-interrupts-russian-state-broadcast-shouting-no-war-2022-3">shouted</a>. The sign she held said: "Don't believe the propaganda" and "They are lying to you here." <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/16/media/marina-ovsyannikova-amanpour/index.html">Speaking to CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday</a>, the editor said she decided "spontaneously" to launch a protest, but the notion had been "brewing" for a while. "I have been feeling a cognitive dissonance, more and more, between my beliefs and what we say on air," Ovsyannikova said."It was a brewing sense of dissatisfaction that kept increasing every year. And the war was the point of no return when it was simply impossible to stay silent," she continued. "And I realized we would have to do something, or we will reach a point of no return, and it will be more and more difficult to do anything." She told CNN that her protest inspired some colleagues to resign from their posts after feeling a similar "disconnect" from reality.Ovsyannikova said that she was handed an administrative sentence and that there was an ongoing criminal investigation into her on-air protest.Despite becoming the face of protest in <keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword>, Ovsyannikova said her family held divided opinions on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She told CNN her elderly mother had been "brainwashed" by Russian propaganda."She keeps repeating the phrases she hears on TV, the phrases that our propagandists created," Ovsyannikova said of her mother. Russian leader Vladimir Putin has baselessly attempted to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-tries-justifying-ukraine-war-denazification-zelensky-jewish-president-2022-2">justify his invasion of Ukraine as a mission to "de-nazify" the country</a>.Ovsyannikova has been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-state-tv-worker-staged-live-anti-war-protest-fined-2022-3">fined $273 but has not been charged yet for the on-air demonstration</a>. She was released after a 14-hour interrogation."I don't feel scared, but at the moment, of course, I feel a huge burden of responsibility, and I realize that my life has changed irreparably. I don't think there's some kind of sad fate in store for me for the demonstration on air, but I am hoping I won't face criminal charges," she told Amanpour. The journalist's protests could land her in prison for up to 15 years, according to Russia's wartime censorship law, reported <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/world/europe/russia-censorship-media-crackdown.html">The New York Times.</a> Members of the <keyword id="11894119" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="media" source="Orion">media</keyword> are prohibited from calling the invasion a "war," per The Times.

The journalist who stormed a Russian state TV broadcast waving a 'NO WAR' banner says she felt it was 'impossible to stay silent' after years of seeing a 'disconnect between reality' and Russian state propaganda

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Ukrainian woman uses porn and gambling sites to tell the truth about Putin's war in Ukraine.</li><li>Anatasiya Baydachenko, CEO of Ukraine's IAB, says the blocking rates on these sites are lower. </li></ul>Russia's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-russia-is-attacking-ukraine-putin-justification-for-invasion-2022-2">invasion of Ukraine</a> has forced millions to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-invasion-ukraine-refugees-oligarchs-humanitarian-crisis-2022-3">take up arms</a> against Vladimir Putin's forces, but others are fighting in less conventional ways. Anastasiya Baydachenko is among them.The chief executive of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Ukraine is using advertisements featuring still images as well as video on porn and gambling sites in a bid to tell Russians and Belarusians the truth about the conflict in Ukraine. Baydachenko told Insider that advertising on these sites made sense because it was easy and affordable and increased the chance of Russians and Belarusians seeing them.Despite lacking a tracking system to assess effectiveness, she believed about 80% reached Russians and Belarusians. "Adult and gambling sites have a Russian audience, and ad platforms can sell us this traffic." Although the outreach was not too significant, "it is one more tool" that should not be dismissed, Baydachenko said. "We strongly believe that we should try to deliver truthful messages to those who have been under decades of state propaganda."Insider reported shortly after the invasion that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ukrainians-strugg">Putin's disinformation</a> was so effective many Ukrainians could not convince their own families in Russia they were under attack.Low ad-blocking rates are low on these websites, she said, compared with bigger sites such as YouTube that have teams of moderators. Her biggest challenge is funding, however.Baydachenko said using porn sites was a good way to reach Russians, but did not exclude much larger platforms operated by Meta and Google even if their stricter policies made them more difficult to do so.Jemimah Steinfeld, the editor-in-chief of <a href="https://www.indexoncensorship.org/">Index on Censorship</a>, a nonprofit that campaigns for free expression, said that to combat censorship, you need to "throw everything at it."She warned, however: "We should also be aware that when adverts on the war are seen they might not always have the intended reception."When you've been given a one-sided story, the other side could just be dismissed as propaganda. It's for this reason that those placing ads in Russia might select more stories that are harder to dismiss – like inflation.""Certainly in the case of Facebook, it was seen as a big enough threat that Russia moved to block it," Steinfeld said.Indeed, Russia criticized Facebook for "restricting the official accounts of four Russian media outlets," <a href="https://rkn.gov.ru/news/rsoc/news74108.htm?utm_source=businessinsider.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=businessinsider.com&amp;utm_referrer=businessinsider.com">Roskomnadzor, Russia's tech and communications regulator,</a> said the day after Putin's forces invaded Ukraine.Steinfeld added: "We've seen that social media can work against free expression – algorithms can be blunt tools, blocking as much crucial information as they do misinformation. But, we shouldn't underestimate its role in terms of informing us on warfare and human rights violations."In May, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-officials-spent-8-million-on-vpns-censorship-dodging-2022-5">Insider reported</a> that Russian officials spent $8 million on VPNs that let them dodge the country's online censorship. Baydachenko added: "There's no independent media and media traditionally named as opposition or alternative are at least partly – if not fully – directed from the state. There are no news on air, only recording – that's why we just keep a smile while reading about opportunistic TV news editor coming to air with a poster."Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/russian-tv-employee-interrupts-news-broadcast-marina-ovsyannikova">Russia's state Channel One television</a> had interrupted the channel's main news programme on March 14 with a sign saying: "Don't believe the propaganda. They're lying to you here." Baydachenko concluded: "I am sure that Russia uses the same methods as the former KGB: blackmail, torture, psychological pressure, and more to make journalists obedient."

Porn and gambling sites are being used to tell Russians the truth about Putin's war

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Russian journalist says families are told to supress news of military relatives killed in <keyword id="11985141" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ukraine" source="Orion">Ukraine</keyword>.</li><li>"They say, now there is no need to make a fuss," the Siberian journalist told the BBC.</li></ul>A Russian journalist says families of soldiers killed in Ukraine are being told to keep silent about it, and that newspapers are told not to report fatalities. "All local media outlets were instructed by regional government not to publish any data on losses in Ukraine," the journalist, who works in the Siberia region, <a href="https://twitter.com/oivshina/status/1508494171027480583">told BBC World correspondent Olga Ivshina</a>.The journalist said that "there are cases when local officials put pressure on the relatives of the victims, ordering them to stay silent," according to Ivshina."They say, now there is no need to make a fuss, we will find a way to commemorate your boys later." After weeks without addressing losses in Ukraine, <keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword> <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-death-toll-1351/31770672.html">said last week</a> that 1,351 of its soldiers had died in the offensive.Its total was vastly less than the numbers Ukraine says it has killed. A <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nato-official-40000-russian-troops-have-been-killed-captured-injured-2022-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">NATO official estimated </a>that a more accurate estimate was between 7,000 and 15,000.According to Ivshina, Russian journalists are also being targeted for reporting on war deaths."There is evidence of growing pressure on local journalists in Russia who report on the military losses – some of the earlier publications about soldiers killed in action were deleted. Sometimes it happens in a day or two, sometimes within an hour," <a href="https://twitter.com/oivshina/status/1508493850377170957">she tweeted.</a>Ukraine's deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, recently said that Russia was refusing to provide Ukraine with lists of missing Russian troops so that their bodies can be returned, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/kremlin-russia-families-return-dead-bodies-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskiy">the Guardian reported.</a>"The Russian authorities don't want these bodies," she said.Russia has also been accused of using mobile crematorium chambers to conceal the true number of troops killed in the Ukraine conflict."These guys are carrying those cremation chambers for themselves," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy <a href="https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/zelenskyy-says-russians-carrying-cremation-190517922.html">said earlier this month</a>, without providing evidence. Russian state-run media is painting the invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a "special military operation," as a success and news of the war is being heavily censored. However, some journalists are breaking step.Russian state TV <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/protestor-interrupts-russian-state-broadcast-shouting-no-war-2022-3">editor Marina Ovsyannikova stormed</a> a live Channel One news broadcast with an anti-war protest sign earlier this month and her colleague Zhanna Agalakova <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/ex-russian-state-tv-reporter-i-quit-over-ukraine-war-2022-03-22/">recently publicly resigned</a> over the war.Top officials from Ukraine and Russia met for peace talks in Turkey on Tuesday, with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/zelenskyy-says-ukraine-willing-discuss-neutral-status-russia-talks-2022-3">Ukraine saying it is open to declaring neutral status</a> to end the war.

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