Whenever TV Rain, Russia’s last independent television channel, was broadcasting live, the lights in its vast loft were dimmed and conversations were hushed, because its studio was cordoned off from the rest of the space only by partial-height glass partitions. When I got to the loft just before ten on Tuesday night, the lights were low, as usual, but the noise level was veering into risky territory.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3-RwT-Hgu8

Mikhail Fishman, who hosts a Friday-night news-analysis program, was in the studio with TV Rain’s editor-in-chief, Tikhon Dzyadko. Fishman had decided to help host the newscast because his colleagues had been working long shifts since last Thursday, when Russia invaded Ukraine. Fishman was offering some observations on the state of the war. “Vladimir Putin didn’t believe that the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian nation exist. . . . He started a war against Ukraine to prove his point, and he has proved the opposite.” Fishman then directed viewers to a quote from a Guardian column by the historian Yuval Noah Harari, who enumerated the stories of heroism and resolve that Ukrainians had racked up in just a few days: “The president who refused to flee the capital, telling the US that he needs ammunition, not a ride; the soldiers from Snake Island who told a Russian warship to ‘go Bleep yourself’; the civilians who tried to stop Russian tanks by sitting in their path. This is the stuff nations are built from. In the long run, these stories count for more than tanks.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/russia-blocks-its-last-independent-television-channel

Putin you are getting it wrong.. you can't silence your own people.. this man will cause an insurrection in his country...
This is not the way at all

And yet some ediots here on nairaland keep blabbing about propaganda and western media. Kremlin writes and decides what is reported and even words used by broadcast stations.

But some nairalanders won't let us hear word with chants of "Western Media" and "Western propaganda".

I've reading comments of Putin's fanboys for days now without commenting. But I just want to point out that has anyone notice the similarities between the Q-anon cult following of Trump, about him being the liberator and the savior from the New World Order, calling unfavorable new coverage mains stream media CNN "fake News" and Putin's secret quest to destroy the "evil" west and their "MSM propaganda"?

Putin getting it wrong as usual.....

Camelot65:
But some nairalanders won't let us hear word with chants of "Western Media" and "Western propaganda".

They will now have no choice but to watch western propaganda

Twitter and Facebook gone as well.

Putin might need to take lessons from the Rocket man of North Korean