Jammed broadcasts to blocked website: BBC Russian's 80 years of defiance
For half a century, BBC Russian had to fend off jammers. Now its website is blocked, but millions still read it.
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For half a century, BBC Russian had to fend off jammers. Now its website is blocked, but millions still read it.
www.bbc.co.uk#LeaveRussia: BBC is Temporarily Pausing Operations in Russia
leave-russia.orgThe BBC strongly rejects the decision by the Russian authorities to designate Ilya Abishev and Elizaveta Fokht as 'foreign agents'. BBC News Russian journalists have been singled out, following earlier designations of Ilya Barabanov, Anastasia Lotareva, Andrey Kozenko, and Olga Ivshina. BBC News Global Director and Deputy CEO, Jonathan Munro, says: 'It has now become a routine exercise for the Russian authorities to add BBC News Russian journalists to their list of 'foreign agents'.
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www.business-humanrights.orgThe editor of BBC News Russian explains the impact of being labelled “foreign agents”
www.bbc.com"The safety of our staff is paramount and we are not prepared to expose them to the risk of criminal prosecution simply for doing their jobs," BBC Director-General Tim Davie said in a statement.
economictimes.indiatimes.comGlobal news media said they were suspending reporting in Russia to protect their journalists after a new law that threatened jail terms of up to 15 years for spreading "fake news".
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