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For months, the Russians have seen the space left to independent information shrink to a trickle.
And then the dark came in the early morning of February 24, with the launch by Vladimir Putin of the
"special operation"
in Ukraine - according to the terminology now imposed by the Kremlin.
The last sources of information distanced from the official discourse - the television channel Dojd ("Rain", in Russian) and the emblematic radio Echo of Moscow - have been closed.
The Mediazona web news site was blocked on Sunday evening.
There remains perhaps the
Novaya Gazeta
newspaper , on a tightrope, despite the notoriety of its editor, Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov.
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On Friday, three amendments to the penal code introduced penalties of up to 15 years in prison for anyone who disseminates
"false information"
about the armed forces.
An initiative justified by the
"informational war"
against Russia, according to the spokesperson...
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