Russia imposes a de facto military censorship over its invasion of Ukraine

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Echo of Moscow and TV Rain have reportedly been cut off the airwaves as Russia imposes a de facto military censorship over its invasion of Ukraine. Russian media have been banned from using the words “war, invasion or attack.” Predictably Orwellian turn as Russia bombs Ukraine.

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Russia’s parliament is going to discuss criminalizing “spreading disinformation about the armed forces of the Russian Federation in any military conflicts” on Friday

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The war censorship crackdown begins. Russian prosecutors want to ban independent channel
@tvrain
and liberal radio station
@EchoMskRu
(owned by Gazprom!) for "calls to extremism" and "publishing false data about Russian soldiers" during the war in Ukraine

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Russia is also threatening to ban Wikipedia for an article called “Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022” because of “illegally disseminated information” about Russian military and Ukrainian civilian casualties, as well as bank runs

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