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Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Monday, March 7th. I'm Naila Boudou. Today,

I've paused to talk about burnout, what it actually is and how it can change us. But first,

our one big thing. Russia's crackdown on the press.

New legislation from Moscow approved on Friday could imprison journalists for up to 15 years

for publishing what Russia deems as fake news about the invasion. As a result, CNN, CBS and ABC

have stopped broadcasts in Russia and the BBC and Bloomberg have suspended operations in the

country entirely. Axios media reporter Sarah Fisher has been following the story. Good morning, Sarah.

Hi, Naila. Where did this legislation come from, Sarah?

I think that Vladimir Putin is very anxious and desperate to control the messaging to his own

people domestically. And as a result, they scrambled and came up with a new law that basically

said anything that you're saying about our invasion, you know, they're not calling it an invasion

internally. But what's happening in Ukraine that's not using government sources can be deemed

in, quote, fake news. So there was a little bit of prelude warning leading up to this.

But I don't think journalists and networks in the country were expecting it to come down this way.

And then the big question also is what does this then mean for how we understand what's going on inside

Russia? It makes it very hard. Vladimir Putin is already a very isolated leader. This makes it even harder

to read him. It also makes it hard to understand how the people of Russia feel. When we have news organizations

on the ground able to do independent and objective reporting, we can see that people are protesting.

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