“In his telling, it was the 2011-12 protests in Moscow that changed everything. Those protests, which Putin blamed on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, spooked the Russian President, according to Skorobutov. “People were imprisoned. Media were taken under control of the State.”
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‘Censorship introduced,” he said. “It was a point of reflection for me. The state was against its people. Human freedoms, including freedom of speech, were gradually eliminated.”’
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“(Others would note that this is a self-serving chronology, as Putin’s dismantling of democracy began long before 2011, & that Skorobutov remained at state TV through the annexation of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine, when Russian media propaganda was especially noxious.)”
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Reading this article drops my stomach even though many of us supposed this was all orchestrated to see in writing without the pink colored veils is literally stunningAs always I salute the New Yorker if I wasn't so numbed Happy Thanksgiving to all of you
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Russians do not mess around. “drunken colleague beat him up at work and, in his telling, the Kremlin-controlled network tried to cover up the assault. “.
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very telling and exactly what we've seen on the ground for some time. Money was exchanged with Trump's people.
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“During the 2016 campaign, he was an editor for “Vesti,” a daily news program. Skorobutov described it as a mid-level position, with 4 layers of bureaucrats separating him and the Kremlin. His supervisor was a news director who, he said, got his job after making a laudatory...”
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“...documentary about Putin. Before joining “Vesti,” Skorobutov worked as the press secretary of the Russian Geographical Society, a pet project of Putin, which made headlines last year when Putin declared at a Society event that Russian borders “do not end anywhere.”
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