Pay Raises, More News and Tighter Control: Staff at Russian State TV Work Overtime Amid Ukraine War

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prosecution and later left Russia
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fear of losing her job.Ovsyannikova herself believes many more state television employees would have quit if her protest and subsequent
Ovsyannikova told The Moscow Times
June to help retain staff, the Channel One employee told The Moscow Times
Employees at state-run Rossiya 1 also got a pay raise, according to a Rossiya 1 journalist who spoke to The Moscow Times on condition of
was thinking about quitting, but money was important
I hoped peace talks [between Russia and Ukraine] would achieve some results
of the invasion, Russian state media has been faithfully relaying the Kremlin narrative that the war is meant to liberate Ukrainians from
in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol
t.me/SolovievLivePundits and presenters on state television channels often use genocidal rhetoric, or mock evidence that Russian soldiers
since the start of the invasion when channels ramped up news coverage
increased
atmosphere in state media newsrooms
Ostankino.Igor S (CC BY 3.0)She recounted an incident after the start of the war when managers rejected a documentary film about Ukrainian
history that her department had made
state-owned TV channels has been a tightening of control
channel.The Rossiya 1 journalist said that only employees who pass security checks are given access to live broadcasts and social media
channels come as Russia has introduced new laws effectively criminalizing objective reporting, resulting in hundreds of independent
blocked or censored since the start of the fighting, according to online freedom organization Roskomsvoboda
of picture we show and how it is made up, what subtext it has
[President Vladimir] Putin, they will always be traitors