TV Rain, a youth-focused Russian TV station often critical of the Kremlin that was shut down by state authorities early in March, is continuing in a YouTube version.
Exiled Russian journalists Ekaterina Kotrikadze and Tikhon Dzyadko are behind the new venture. They spoke to CNN today on host Brian Stelter’s “Reliable Sources” show to detail their mission.
“You now face 10 years in prison if you call this war what it is, a war…if you interview President Zelenskyy or do anything like that,” Kotrikadze told Stelter.
When the independent news outlet shut down, at the end of the night’s report, the staff gathered around the news desk. The anchors were overhead saying “no war,” as everyone walked off together. The broadcast image of the empty studio was replaced by the TV station’s logo and a message asking for donations before the telecast cut to old footage from...
Exiled Russian journalists Ekaterina Kotrikadze and Tikhon Dzyadko are behind the new venture. They spoke to CNN today on host Brian Stelter’s “Reliable Sources” show to detail their mission.
“You now face 10 years in prison if you call this war what it is, a war…if you interview President Zelenskyy or do anything like that,” Kotrikadze told Stelter.
When the independent news outlet shut down, at the end of the night’s report, the staff gathered around the news desk. The anchors were overhead saying “no war,” as everyone walked off together. The broadcast image of the empty studio was replaced by the TV station’s logo and a message asking for donations before the telecast cut to old footage from...
- 3/27/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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