Why is Russia censoring LGBT-themed TV series?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Russia’s new weapon in the Ukraine war: LGBT and the ‘decadent’ West. How a crackdown on political opposition is now accompanied by a crackdown on the Russian LGBT community. We hear from BBC Moscow’s Will Vernon. And Nataliya Zotova, of the BBC Russian service, talks Vic and Vitaliy through opposition politics in Russia, two years after Alexei Navalny was jailed.
Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor at The Economist, answers your questions about Germany and tanks. And we get up to speed on the corruption scandals gripping Ukraine.
Clips from ‘The White Lotus’ made by HBO Entertainment, Pallogram, The District, and Rip Cord Productions. And from ‘Sex and The City’, made by HBO, New Line Cinema, HBO Films, The Montecito Picture Company and Darren Star.
Soviet Sports Parade footage courtesy of British Pathe.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaliy Shevchenko. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Clare Williamson and Luke Radcliff. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The series producer is Fiona Leach. The assistant editor is Alison Gee and the editor is Sam Bonham. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's 335 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:11.3 | And the country came together over the weekend to pay its respects to the lives lost |
| 0:15.8 | in the helicopter crash in Kiev last week. |
| 0:19.0 | Relatives, colleagues and friends led a funeral procession through the streets of Kiev |
| 0:30.2 | beginning their journey at the office of Denis Monastirisky, the interior minister who |
| 0:35.6 | lost his life at the crash and ending at Ukraine in the house where the public said their |
| 0:42.1 | final farewell. |
| 0:49.6 | President Zelensky led the tributes to those who died, which included a five-year-old girl |
| 0:54.8 | Milana and her mom Alena. |
| 1:07.7 | This is Ukraine coast. |
| 1:09.6 | Ukraine coast from business. |
| 1:12.5 | Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heart-haid and pain. |
| 1:17.1 | The ends of people are without heating, without water. |
| 1:20.3 | It is the aggression that will be needed to use nuclear weapons. |
| 1:25.9 | They killed him and fled. |
| 1:27.3 | I do not know how women have to survive. |
| 1:30.9 | I want people to know the truth. |
| 1:34.5 | Hello, this is Victoria at home. |
| 1:36.6 | And this is Vitaly in the Ukraine car studio in London. |
| 1:40.3 | What on earth is going on with these German tanks? |
| 1:43.2 | Why the reluctance to send them? |
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