![]() ![]() Social networks thus became a kind of censorship by-pass for Russian independent media, which they could use to continue publishing – and for young Russians, who often no longer even paid attention to the state media landscape, they became the main source of information. #The last bastion youtube plusRegulation on the Internet progressed much more slowly – partly because the Russian media supervisory authority Roskomnadzor was less familiar with the media world 2.0 than with the post-Soviet model of “state broadcasters plus loyalists”, partly because the Russian state has difficulty accessing the operating companies based abroad. The long history of media repression in Russia, which Varlamov’s contribution traverses, has long gone in opposite directions for news editors and bloggers: Every year in Russia more newspapers and broadcasters have been brought into line by staff reshuffles, their portal pages blocked or broadcasting licenses revoked, editorial offices or individual journalists are prevented from working due to the status of “foreign agents” or are classified as “extremists” on the same level as armed terrorist organizations and are banned. The shabby-headed publicist began his career with blog posts about deficiencies in road and urban construction and was considered too uncritical by many members of the opposition now its three million reach on YouTube is valuable for the independent journalists whose platforms the Russian state recently wiped out. ![]() ![]() In the same video, the word “war”, the use of which the Russian state has criminalized in the context of the Ukraine invasion, is replaced by the loud cocking of a gun – but only when Varlamov is speaking himself. ![]()
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