Dec 20 from https://www.alternet.org/ Left

Times journalists deemed ‘legitimate military targets’ – how Russia muzzles criticism at home and abroad

Russia’s former president and current deputy head of its security council, Dmitry Medvedev, has declared that the editors of the Times newspaper in the UK are now “legitimate military targets”. Medvedev, who is one of Vladimir Putin’s closest allies, was responding to the newspaper’s coverage of the recent assassination of Russia’s chemical weapons chief, Igor Kirillov, in Moscow on December...

Mar 07 from https://www.alternet.org/ Left

Russia Criminalizes Independent War Reporting, Anti-War Protests

Click to expand Image A flag flies on a Russian State Duma building in Moscow, Russia. February 2022. © 2022 Alexey Maishev/Sputnik via AP Update (March 23, 2022): In the three days after the law’s adoption on March 4, Russian authorities opened at least 60 cases on the administrative offense of “discrediting Russian armed forces,” the vast majority against peaceful anti-war protesters. By...

Apr 05 from https://www.alternet.org/ Left

Four things you need to know about Russian media manipulation strategies

The crisis embroiling the West and Russia over the apparent use of chemical weapons in the English cathedral town of Salisbury can tell us a lot about how the Putin administration is becoming more and more adept at manipulating media coverage of events to gain advantage, both at home and abroad. The furious accusations levelled against Moscow by the UK government in recent weeks appear to be...

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