Posted on 03/04/2022 3:40:41 AM PST by Libloather
Russian staff at independent television channel TV Rain (Dozhd) ended their final broadcast by walking out of the studio in a silent protest live on-air after being ordered to close by authorities due to the broadcaster's coverage of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
The leading independent broadcaster was blocked by Russia's telecommunications regulator earlier this week following pressure over its coverage of the Ukraine crisis.
Russian authorities have prohibited media from calling President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine a "war"—state-run media outlets adopt the term "special military operation."
The Russian parliament passed a law on Friday that criminalizes the distribution of "fake news" about the Russian military, with those convicted facing up to 15 years in prison.
Staff at the TV station delivered their final show on YouTube on Thursday, before walking out of their studio live on-air.
"No to war," the television channel's general director, Natalia Sindeyeva, said on Thursday as staff exited the studio.
The channel then broadcast Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake," which was aired on Soviet state TV during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The channel announced Thursday that it would suspend operations indefinitely under mounting pressure from the Kremlin.
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PUCK FUTIN!
Do they still have the gulags? 🙃
I didn’t know Soviet TV played Swan Lake as the U.S.S.R. collapsed. Talk about a Swan Song!
All it shows is the media in Russia is far tougher and more independent than the pathetic fake news media in America, who would never dare trash the totally evil Biden.
Their Walter Cronkite moment.
The war efforts are going so great that Putin needs to shutdown coverage of it. /sarc
One casualty of war for me is no live broadcast of the Bolshoi’s upcoming performance of Swan Lake. I always take the granddaughters. Cinema is usually filled with Russian emigres.
No, there is no independent media. That TV station was the last independent voice. Only Russian government media remains.
They are braver than CNN.
Reminiscent of police action, incursion, intervention, regime change, peace keeping......politicians are always clever at spinning
“No, there is no independent media. That TV station was the last independent voice. Only Russian government media remains.”
So it’s like the US now?
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