A woman broke into Russia's leading evening live news today with a sign that read: “Stop the War. Don't believe in propaganda. They're lying to them.” And singing: “Stop the war! No to war!”
The anti-war protester who interrupted Vremya's news broadcast on Channel One was later identified as Marina Ovsyannikova, editor of Channel One, as reported by Pavel Chikov, whose legal defense foundation is going to defend her against charges of “discrediting the Russian armed forces.”
Ovsyannikova is in detention and is already at the police station.
He would also have recorded a video before the surprise protest in which he blames Vladimir Putin for the war and apologizes for his work on Russian state television news.
In Russia, most media are controlled directly or indirectly by the state or by groups related to President Putin. The few independent media that remain face many limitations on their work and many of them are classified as “foreign agents”.
Today, words such as “war”, “Ukrainian army” or “invasion” cannot be used by the media under threat of blocking the web and economic fine. The audiovisual media does not broadcast images of Ukraine, as they have not shown images of Russian hospitals during the pandemic. These are realities alien to Russian citizens. The invasion has been presented as a “military operation to denazify” part of Ukraine and protect the Russian-speaking population from “genocide”. However, numerous Russian journalists have spoken out against the war; they have promoted manifestos of condemnation and have denounced the cultural, economic and social degradation that the conflict will mean in Russia.
Disinformation is an ancient technique, used systematically in armed conflicts. Russia has developed a great cybercapacity to generate hoaxes and misinformation abroad with what is known as the “Internet Research Agency” and the media RT and Sputnik, among others. The media generates the content and trolls act on social networks, generating many confusing narratives, creating doubts and confusing facts and opinions. The fundamental objective of these operations is to build and spread arguments in favor of the Russian government and its foreign policy.
In order to avoid the misinformation and toxic content that RT and Sputnik are generating about the war in Ukraine, the European Union has decided to suspend its activity in the EU countries.
The Russian response was not long in coming. First, it prohibits access to Twitter and Facebook, and then the Russian parliament passes a law that provides sentences of 15 years for spreading information deemed false by the government. Faced with the risk posed by this measure, most major Western media — BBC, Bloomberg, RAI, TVE, Agencia EFE, CNN, ARD, among others — have decided to leave Moscow, initiating a media blackout in the country.
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