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Monday, March 21, 2022

What you’ll find in today’s newsletter

• Latest developments
• Team Navalny links a $700-million superyacht to Putin
• Meduza speaks to people sticking it out in Kharkiv
• A long-time state TV director explains why he’s finally quit
• Meduza interviews Marina Ovsyannikova
• A high school geography teacher describes how his opposition to the war cost him his job and then his life in Russia
• New podcast episode: The past, present, and future of Telegram in Russia

Latest major developments in Russia and Ukraine

• A servant of the people: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says any compromise with Russia on the status of Crimea and the Donbas would depend ultimately on the results of a nationwide referendum. Zelensky also argued that NATO refuses to admit Ukraine because its members fear Russia, and this means Kyiv must seek alternative security guarantees.
• Counting Ukraine’s dead: The latest estimates by the United Nations confirm the deaths of 975 civilians in Ukraine, including 75 children. Thousands more are reportedly dead in the besieged city of Mariupol.
• Russia bans Facebook and Instagram: After a court in Moscow granted prosecutors’ request to designate Meta as an “extremist” organization, Russia’s federal censor ordered news media organizations to stop displaying the logos of Meta, Facebook, and Instagram. Journalists in compliance with Russian state censorship must now indicate in news coverage that Meta has been banned in Russia as an “extremist” group. (Separately, Roskomnadzor also blocked the television network Euronews.)
• The disappearing casualty tally: An article published online by Komsomolskaya Pravda claimed briefly that Russia’s Defense Ministry admitted to nearly 10,000 Russian soldiers dying in Ukraine. The report’s original text did not include this information and the edited version remained live for several hours before the information was removed (along with two paragraphs from the original text about the death of Russian naval captain Andrey Paliy and the destruction of two “mercenary” camps outside Zhytomyr in Ukraine). The tabloid later said its website was hacked.
• At the brink: Russia’s Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan to warn that President Biden’s recent comments about Putin being a “pure thug” and “murderous dictator” have brought Washington and Moscow to the brink of a full break in diplomatic relations.
• Don’t call it a purge: Members of the Just Russia — For Truth political party launched an online project to petition Federal Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin about fellow Russian citizens suspected of anti-state activities. The party says it’s already requested inquiries into how Channel One hired Marina Ovsyannikova (the woman who protested the war in Ukraine by interrupting a live news broadcast), how Russian Railways selected a Spanish company to service its Strizh train line, and more. “The time has come to build the state’s personnel policy on a wave of patriotism. This isn’t about purges; it’s about love for the country,” says the website. (In a related event, Channel One deputy general director Kirill Kleimyonov denounced his former colleague Ovsyannikova in a televised statement, accusing her of communicating with British diplomats before her protest.)
• A treason case long in the making begins: Proceedings in the treason case against journalist Ivan Safronov have begun in Moscow. The trial is closed to the public, and journalists’ access to information about the case is limited to what they can learn from defense attorneys, who are bound by non-disclosure requirements. Safronov reportedly stands accused of passing classified information to Czech intelligence agencies working with the United States. Police arrested Safronov back in July 2020 and he has been imprisoned ever since.

Navalny’s team links mysterious $700-million superyacht to Russian President Vladimir Putin (4-min read)

Working in exile, Alexey Navalny’s team of anti-corruption activists have released a new investigation linking a $700-million superyacht to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The luxury vessel, officially registered to an offshore company in the Marshall Islands, is allegedly crewed by members of Russia’s Secret Service. Navalny’s team published the investigation on the eve of the Kremlin critic’s sentencing in yet another criminal trial. Navalny, who is currently serving more than 2.5 years in prison, could see his term extended to 13 years behind bars on new charges of fraud and contempt of court.

Russian troops have been shelling Kharkiv for 25 days. Meduza spoke to the civilians who still live there. (16-min read)

Russian troops have been shelling Kharkiv nonstop for over three weeks now. The city’s residential areas and historic center are completely destroyed, and necessities like food and medicines are difficult to come by. More than 100 civilians have been killed, while hundreds of thousands of others have fled the city. Meduza spoke to some of the people who remain about what life is like in Kharkiv and what’s motivating them to stay.

After 24 years at Russia’s main state news network, Dmitry Likin resigned last week. He explained his decision to Meduza. (7-min read)

As the war against Ukraine grinds on, Russia’s state television networks continue to rack up resignations. Last week, Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova staged a one-person antiwar protest on a live news broadcast; special correspondent Zhanna Agalakova resigned from the network at the same time. Shortly after, Dmitry Likin, who has worked as Channel One’s art director for over 20 years, submitted his resignation as well. Meduza special correspondent Svetlana Reiter spoke with Likin about his decision.

Meduza’s interview with former state TV employee Marina Ovsyannikova (the woman who interrupted a live news broadcast to protest the war) (9-min read)

On March 14, during a live broadcast on Russian state television network Channel One, a station employee named Marina Ovsyannikova ran out on stage behind the news anchor, unfurled an antiwar sign, and shouted antiwar slogans. After the broadcast, Ovsyannikova was immediately arrested; she was later convicted of participating in an unauthorized protest and fined 30 thousand rubles (about $250). The authorities are now conducting a preliminary inquiry into Ovsyannikova. Meduza special correspondent Svetlana Reiter spoke with Ovsyannikova about her start at Channel One in the 2000s — and why this war was her breaking point.

Kamran Manafly lost his job in Moscow when he rejected state guidelines on discussing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with students. Then the school’s principal threatened him with prison, and he fled the country. (9-min read)

Kamran Manafly is a 28-year-old schoolteacher in Moscow. Or rather he was until recently, when he lost his job after refusing to follow state guidelines on how to discuss Russia’s “special military operation in Ukraine” with students. The final straw for the administrators was a photograph Manafly shared on Instagram from an antiwar protest where he wrote that he “doesn’t want to be a mirror of government propaganda.” The school fired him for “immoral behavior,” and a security guard later attacked him when he tried to retrieve his belongings from his office. Within days, the principal even threatened to have him prosecuted for “betraying the Motherland.” Meduza spoke to Manafly about his dismissal and subsequent decision to leave Russia altogether. What follows is his story, told in his own words.

The Naked Pravda: Telegram and the future of Russian Internet freedom (38 minutes)

We’re now more than three weeks deep into Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and many are asking the question: What information is still reaching Russians? Unless you’re using a VPN to tunnel beneath the state’s censorship, Instagram is blocked, Facebook is blocked, Twitter is blocked, and YouTube is probably next. The independent news media is in tatters, and it looks like the main social networks left standing will be domestic services like Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte, which enforce the Kremlin’s political censorship — and then there’s Telegram. This week’s guests: Dr. Tanya Lokot and Dr. Mariëlle Wijermars.

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