A Russian radio station was taken off air over its protection of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, information company AFP reported Thursday. This is the most recent in a collection of measures taken by the Putin authorities to manage the narrative by banning the usage of sure phrases like ‘attack, invasion, war’ and curbing entry to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
“Ekho Moskvy radio station – a symbol of new-found media freedom in post-Soviet Russia – is to shut down after being taken off air over its coverage of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine,” it mentioned.
#UPDATE Ekho Moskvy radio station – image of new-found media freedom in post-Soviet Russia – is to close down after being taken off air over its protection of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russian media have been instructed to solely publish info supplied by official sources pic.twitter.com/fdjEySQBlS
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 3, 2022
Earlier, it was reported that Russian media have been instructed to solely publish info supplied by official sources. Media homes have additionally been banned from utilizing phrases like assault, invasion or warfare to explain the Ukraine disaster, mentioned a Guardian report citing Latvian-based Russian information web site Meduza. It added that Kremlin has curtailed entry to social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and threatened to close down impartial media platforms like TV Rain and the newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
Novaya Gazeta, a Russian newspaper headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, had printed an version of its paper in each Russian and Ukrainian with a web page one headline “Russia is bombing Ukraine” in nationwide colors.
From right now’s Russian-Ukrainian cowl of Russian @novaya_gazeta , who condemn the warfare as ‘madness’: ‘We don’t recognise individuals of Ukraine as enemies, and Ukrainian language as enemy language. All vital tales on this situation are printed in Russian and Ukrainian languages’ pic.twitter.com/imdWIqnz6a
— The Siberian Times (@siberian_times) February 25, 2022
Viewers of Russian tv final week may suppose their nation was solely concerned in a small operation in south-east Ukraine, and that the Ukrainian authorities was in search of to impress a bigger warfare, mentioned the report.
As Russia started its “military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Moscow to exhibit in opposition to warfare. Images on social media confirmed police dragging away civilians, with protest-monitoring group OVD-Info placing the variety of detainees at 7,000, reported AFP.
Dozens of anti-war demonstrators have been detained in Moscow and Saint Petersburg Wednesday after jailed Kremlin critic Navalny known as on Russians to protest Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
OVD-Info says over 7,000 individuals in whole in Russia have been detainedhttps://t.co/JssJePk0VV pic.twitter.com/AHC6Z2k1vG
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 3, 2022
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has known as on Russians to stage day by day protests in opposition to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, depicting President Vladimir Putin as an “obviously insane tsar.”
“We cannot wait even a day longer. Wherever you are. In Russia, Belarus or on the other side of the planet. Go out onto the main square of your city every weekday at 19.00 and at 14.00 at weekends and on holidays,” he mentioned in a press release printed on Twitter by his spokesperson.
