: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Baltics’ Russian Media Use Online Humor to Combat Propaganda


Russia’s nationalist propaganda machine kicked into high gear after the 2014 annexation of Crimea sparked the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War.

State media quickly fell behind the Kremlin line while Russia’s few independent media came under increasing pressure to conform or self-censor.

As Russian authorities shrank the space for independent reporting, one group of Russian journalists escaped the pressure by relocating to the European Union in Latvia’s capital, Riga.

“Because, you know, a lot of white noise propaganda creates some kind of fake agenda. And, we want to provide [a] real agenda to our readers,” says Meduza Project founder …read more

Source: Voice of America

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