The world according to Vladimir Putin.
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The Russian leader spoke to about 600 journalists and took questions from the public.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich being taken into custody on March 30, 2023.
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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is far from the first American journalist to be accused of spying, a media historian explains.
Vladimir Putin speaks at a rally in Moscow in March 2022, according to this Kremlin image, with a banner that says “For the world without Nazism! For Russia!”
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For hundreds of years, Russia has elevated its political leaders as figureheads. That’s part of what makes its propaganda so convincing.
The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania meeting with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Putin, in Kyiv on June 16.
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A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
Russian military cadets rehearse for the Victory Day military parade in St. Petersburg on May 5, 2022.
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Western officials say that Russia may officially declare war on Ukraine on May 9. An international relations expert explains why this day is significant, and why a war declaration would matter.
Russian pranksters and anti-free speech advocates Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetsov, left, and Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov in Moscow in 2016.
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Political phone pranksters played a big part in the passage of draconian laws that strangle free expression in Russia.
A forensic worker exhumes several bodies from a grave in Bucha, Ukraine, on April 12, 2022.
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A Russian journalist and political operative reveals that Russian leadership is planning for the complete destruction of Ukraine
A woman looks at a computer screen as Russian state news editor Marina Ovsyannikova protests the Ukraine war during a news segment.
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Russia is cracking down on freedom of speech and media. But other factors, like outside online information, could make it difficult to control war propaganda - and block out other information.
Bravery: protesting Russian TV producer Marina Ovsyannikova stages her protest.
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The best of the last week’s coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Bravery: Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova stages a protest live on Russian TV.
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The live protest on one of Russia’s main state-owned TV news bulletins is a blow to Putin because of his near total control of broadcasting in the country.
Repression: thousands of Russians are being arrested in anti-war protests.
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The death of ‘glasnost’ and the return to the oppression of Soviet Russia.
Russian police have detained thousands of Russians who have taken to the streets to protest the invasion of Ukraine.
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Sanctions follow a ‘punishment logic,’ which often hurts the wrong people – and will likely weaken an already beleaguered Russian opposition.
The Kremlin has exerted tight control over news and social media in an effort to control the information Russians receive about the Ukraine war.
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Even as it wages a propaganda and disinformation campaign in Ukraine, Russia is fighting to retain control of the story within Russia.
A live broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking is shown on Dec. 23, 2021, from a media control room in Russia.
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America is being ‘hysterical’ about Russian troop buildups near the Ukrainian border. That’s the official news in Russia, where citizens are getting government’s preferred view of the Ukraine crisis.
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Muratov’s Nobel will be a boon to Russian investigative journalism.
Russia’s choice: voters go to the polls to elect the Duma, or parliament.
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Russia’s state broadcaster works hand-in-hand with the Kremlin to push the party line.
‘Putin is a thief’: protesters taking part in one of the many rallies against the arrest of opposition activist Alexei Navalny, January 2021.
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A new generation of investigative journalists is revealing the depth of corruption in Russian public life.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on holiday to celebrate his birthday in the Siberian taiga on Oct. 7.
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The pro-Kremlin Russian political and media establishment have grown increasingly skilled at spinning stories to highlight US political weaknesses.
Why might a country want to cut off its internet connection?
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Vladimir Putin’s complaints about Western power over telecommunications echo – if not co-opt – concerns raised by less powerful nations for decades.
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If you think Americans are suckers for conspiracies theories, you ought to hear some of the theories that are popular in Putin’s Russia.