Russian news anchor says millions of Russians feel invasion is a catastrophe

[L. Coyote]

Russian news director and anchor, Ekaterina Kotrikadze, speaks to CNN's Fareed Zakaria about the state of the country's news media after her station, TV Rain, shut down due to the Russian government's crackdown on local media over unfavorable coverage of the war in Ukraine.

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[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Evolve Dammit]

2. "Catastrophe" is right. May Putin be toppled by defenestration, Russian style.

[Warpy]

3. There was a YouTube posted here about a week beofre the invasion

that interviewed people on city streets. Some, especially older people, spouted the Putin line. Most younger people said the war was crazy, stupid, would be a catastrphe.

I guess buying the greater glory of Russia and the current Fearless Leader depends on whether or not you're young enough to have to accomplish it for him. Or whether you came of age in a freer society where you were allowed to have an opinion.

Funny, in the leadup to the Iraq war (I and II), most of the people I knew who were most vehemently against it were old crocks like me who remember the Vietnam War and remember all the horseshit they were telling us, and recognized it again leading up to Iraq. The young didn't want it, either. It seemed to be the middle who supported it here.

[erronis]

4. Wonderful interview with the TV Rain news director. She shed a lot of personal light on the

catastrophe that is putin's regime.

Interesting in her view that the older people in russia are willing to accept putin's tactics - because they know they won't have to fight his wars. Of course they'll also suffer - but not for as long as the younger people.

[mysteryowl]

5. sounds like she left Russia, otherwise she could not do this interview

?

[sarchasm]

6. "The society in Russia is divided terribly!" ... sounds familiar

We seem very close to out and out authoritarianism here. All it would take is for the magats to lose the last remaining vestiges of their humanity.