Tag: Radio Liberty’s Russian Service

Ukrainian War Allowed Russian Journalists to Ignore Their Complicity With Putin Regime

August 26, 2014

Staunton, August 24 – Before Ukraine, many Russian TV journalists were ashamed of their willingness to conform to Kremlin guidelines but justified it by their mortgages and family responsibilities, Pavel Sheremet says. But the Ukrainian war has allowed them to see themselves not as “petty propagandists and cowards” but instead as “defenders of the Russian […]