Damien Sharkov

Feb 16, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Damien Sharkov |Jennifer Monaghan

Russian state media tend not to give much or any airtime to critics of the government, and their initial treatment of Alexei Navalny's reported death continues in this vein. On state TV channels, the media outlets with the biggest audiences in Russia, there has been minimal coverage of Navalny's death, and the first reports were largely slow to come and perfunctory.

Feb 16, 2024 | flipboard.com | Damien Sharkov |Jennifer Monaghan

15 hours agoEven behind bars, the dissident leader was a threat to the corrupt Russian dictator. Alexei Navalny returned to Russia in January 2021. Right before he boarded the plane, he posted a film titled “Putin’s Palace: The Story of the World’s Largest Bribe” on YouTube. The video, nearly two hours long, …