Kremlin-Targeted Journalist Roman Badanin on Russian Media Censorship

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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“In Russia—where there is increasing distrust of official state narratives, and an ongoing crackdown on independent media that has forced me and many others to leave the country—it is difficult to know what is true and what is fiction,” wrote Roman Badanin, former editor-in-chief of the independent Russian investigative outlet Proekt, in October 2021. Badanin has been targeted by the Russian government for his investigative reporting, and he’s the founder and editor in chief of a news collaboration between similarly targeted reporters, Agentstvo. He joins us to talk about censorship in Russia today and the independent Russian journalists working illegally to convey the truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.5	Last Friday, the Russian government enacted a new law that effectively shut down the last
1:20.1	remaining independent news outlets in the country.
1:23.3	But Vladimir Putin's government has never liked independent reporting, especially about himself
1:28.0	and his associates.
1:29.9	This hour, we'll be joined by Raman Badan, who created a heavy-hitting investigative news
1:35.0	organization in Russia and found himself targeted by the Kremlin and forced out of the country.
1:40.2	He's landed in the Bay Area and we'll talk with him about the Russian InfoScape, then we'll hear from our own Nastia Bonovskaya, Associate Editor for KQED Arts about the complex relationships between the Russian and Ukrainian pieces of her family.
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1:59.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
2:02.4	We're joined this morning by Russian journalist Rahman Badan.
2:06.2	He was the editor-in-chief of project, an investigative news org, modeled on ProPublica here in the U.S., and it followed the money in and around Putin's inner circle.
2:15.6	That brought the publication and Rahman himself to the attention of the
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