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“The power of the Russian censorship machine changed in between [2014 and 2022],” Ermoshina says. “What I'm afraid of is the strength of Russian propaganda.” ...

Russian officials say journalists writing critically about the war — or calling it a “war” or an “invasion” — are undermining the national interest.

Russia Moves Forward With Media-Censorship Bill. By. ... blow to press freedom and effectively prevents the existence of any reporting that contradicts the government’s policy,” said Gulnoza ...

Since then, Russian officials have continuously dripped out new policies and measures to further control the Internet, boosting the state's censorship and surveillance powers.

It creates real problems for tens of millions of people,” stated liberal politician Boris Nadezhdin outside the State Duma ...

Reporters Without Borders says almost all independent Russian media sources have been banned, blocked or subjected to censorship since the invasion of Ukraine.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling on the Russian parliament to dismiss a new bill giving authorities the power to block websites that have censored Russian state media content, saying it would ...

Russia wants Twitter to block or censor some “extremist” accounts, a top regulator said on Monday. The head of the country’s communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, claimed to ask for 12 ...

Online censorship is bogged down in technical difficulties. On March 16, Russia’s internet and media regulator, Roskomnadzor, threatened to block access to Twitter from within Russia in 30 days ...

Gulnoza Said, the committee’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator, called Russia’s actions following its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine “total censorship.” ...

Unlike China, however, censorship on the Russian internet is a relatively recent phenomenon, says Eva Galpern, a global policy analyst with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.