Putin's Internet Crackdown
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4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Vladimir Putin has always regarded the internet with suspicion. Now, with western tech companies pulling out of Russia and control of the war narrative slipping, he sees an opening. Will Putin wall off Russia from the rest of the digital world?
Guests:
Yana Pashaeva, Moscow-based journalist
Justin Sherman, fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative
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| 0:33.9 | On Wednesday, I did a Zoom call with Yana Pashaiva. |
| 0:37.7 | She's a journalist in Moscow, and she happens to be a former intern for Slate. |
| 0:42.0 | How are you? Are you doing okay? |
| 0:45.0 | I don't know. I'm really frustrated. |
| 0:46.8 | Every day, we have a new bunch of news about companies living, life is getting like less and less comfortable |
| 0:58.6 | and we can't withdraw dollars anymore and our currency is just turning into papers. |
| 1:06.0 | People are leaving the country and other people are thinking should we also leave? Yeah, so it's just |
| 1:13.4 | anxious. Yana found out about the invasion of Ukraine when she woke up to a bunch of early |
| 1:19.4 | morning text messages from friends overseas. I went immediately on social media. My whole Facebook was full of posts of people who were frustrated, depressed. |
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