“TV Rain was excised from cable bundles in 2014. The channel had persevered online and on YouTube as an independent voice often critical of the Kremlin.”
why does the first sentence sound familiar?
we aren’t that far at all from this sort of thing. the recent memo creates a process to identify and tabulate such outlets here (rogue information, I guess) for when further options are taken.
Russia just passed a new law making it punishable by 15 years in prison to give “fake” information about the Russian armed forces
Since as a practical matter what the Putin regime decides is “fake” will be considered fake under the law it becomes dangerous for anyone discussing the war to do anything but parrot what the Putin government says about what is happening or has happened regarding the war in Ukraine