“We’ll do like Churchill, who also restricted information during World War II,” the Kremlin’s notorious spin doctor said. “That is normal.”
cronies have banded together in support of a dangerous new law that has already prompted scores of Russian journalists to flee the country.
On the eve of the bill’s adoption, Matveychev was preparing for what he described as “a new page” in Russia’s history. These broadcasters have been the backbone of independent media in Russia for years, ensuring that Kremlin propaganda is not the only information pumped out on the airwaves. “Both Echo and Rain were not just opposition media, they were agents financed from abroad,” Matveychev told The Daily Beast. “The majority of Russians support our decisions and told us we should have shut them down earlier. Our boys are dying on the frontlines and they criticize our operation.”
Editor-in-chief of Rain TV, Tikhon Dziadko, escaped to Turkey on Tuesday with his family after receiving a series of threats. “Some thugs introducing themselves as the ‘men’s state’ wrote to me [saying]: ‘I will come to your house,” Dziadko told The Daily Beast in a phone interview from Turkey. “We packed a few suitcases and took off with a plan to regroup and see what happens in the country next.
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