In Russia, it's illegal to call the war in Ukraine a war. Yet Kremlin mouthpiece says it's the Western media that's living under 'military censorship.'
that Roskomnadzor had censored 10,000 internet resources in the first year of the war. A number of websites, including VOA, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the BBC, DW, Facebook and Twitter, were blocked.Roskomnadzor's censorship moves in court.that in the first year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, at least 1,000 journalists had emigrated from Russia “because of the threat of criminal prosecution and a ban on the profession.
Journalists, social media users and opposition members refusing to toe the Kremlin line have faced prosecution.for “knowingly publishing false information about Russia’s armed forces.” His crime: writing a factual report about National Guardsmen from Khakassia, his home republic in Siberia, who had refused to fight in Ukraine.in Russia’s Ukraine war mobilization drive.
Also, on April 13, 2022, Sergei Mikhaylov, a journalist from Altai, another Siberian republic, was arrested on the same charges. He had called for Russia to be sanctioned over the war.Maria Ponomarenko, a journalist from the Siberian city of Barnaul, was sentenced to six years in prison for a social media post about Russia’s
on a theater used as a civilian shelter in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which reportedly killed hundreds.receivedThe award takes its name from Boris Nemtsov, an opposition leader assassinated near the Kremlin in Moscow in February 2015. Nemtsova report, published posthumously, about Russian soldiers secretly fighting in Ukraine at that time.
In April, Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison, in part for spreading what Russian authorities called “false information" about the Russian army.the charges against Kara-Murza stemmed “solely from his right to freedom of expression.”to three years in prison for claiming “Kremlin fascists” were waging a war of aggression in Ukraine, and for calling for the burning of draft offices.
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