Moscow is cutting access to two of Russia’s most important media outlets critical of the government — and is cracking down on those reporting on the war in Ukraine. About Kremlin propaganda and forbidden terms.
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Frank Nienhuysen
It’s interesting to see the process of censorship live. The blocking of information about the war in Ukraine, which is not allowed to be called that in Russia. A telephone conversation with an acquaintance in Moscow helps. The Internet television channel Doschd is running on your own screen. The topic: “What is happening in Lviv,” that is, in Lemberg, in western Ukraine. You can see a conversation between the studio moderator and a woman who is in Lviv at the moment, long brown hair, tearful eyes, plugs in her ears. Then a small switch to the train station. Densely packed people can be seen, Ukrainian women crying, telling about explosions, “how terrible everything is”. The acquaintance in Moscow says on the phone: “I don’t see anything.”