Putin's Internet Crackdown
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🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 31 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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| 1:07.8 | On Wednesday, it did a Zoom call with Yana Pashiva. She's a journalist in Moscow and she |
| 1:13.3 | happens to be a former intern for sleep. How are you? Are you doing okay? I don't know. I'm really |
| 1:20.0 | frustrated. Every day you have a new bunch of news about companies leaving and life is getting |
| 1:30.9 | like less and less comfortable and we can't withdraw dollars anymore and our currency is just |
| 1:37.9 | turning into papers. People are leaving the country and other people I think should we also leave? |
| 1:44.8 | Yeah, so it's just anxious. Yana found out about the invasion of Ukraine when she woke up to a bunch |
| 1:52.6 | of early morning text messages from friends overseas. I went immediately on social media. |
| 2:00.0 | My whole Facebook was full of posts of people who were frustrated, depressed, they were crying and |
| 2:10.0 | expressing their disappointment, helplessness. Then I went on media platforms and there were |
| 2:20.8 | those horrible footages of some buildings, bombed fires, shale in. |
| 2:32.5 | I wanted Yana to give me a sense of what it's like to try to get on the internet in Russia now |
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