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MYSTERIOUS: Dozhd - You Need To See This

My Undesirable Friends: Part I – an extraordinary portrait of young Russian journalists fighting to report the truth

Director Julia Loktev’s “undesirable” friends are women, mostly in their 20s or early 30s, who live in Moscow. They all work for TV Rain (Dozhd’) founded in 2010 as a lively, optimistic channel with cool programmes for a young audience, which also addressed more serious issues.

The Conversation

Russia's Exiled Opposition Hopes For Rebirth With Berlin Rally

Russia's opposition will stage a major anti-war, anti-Kremlin demonstration in Berlin this weekend, a vital test for a movement driven into exile by war and repression, and plagued by infighting.

International Business Times

Navalny didn’t just show enormous courage and express irrepressible hope – he embodied them

The Russian opposition leader’s final message – to ‘be scared of nothing’ – should be heeded by the west following his death

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Russia declares independent TV channel 'undesirable,' banning it from country

The Russian prosecutor-general’s office has declared independent TV channel Dozhd to be an undesirable organization, continuing the country’s wide crackdown on news media and groups regarded as threats to Russia’s security

The Independent UK

Senior EU official calls for a ‘Radio Free Russia’ to help exiled media

Vĕra Jourová says the bloc has a moral duty and the project would not necessarily mean a new station

The Guardian - UK

Latvia probing independent TV station, suspects it's helping Russia troops

Latvia's state security service said on Friday it had begun probing statements made by independent Russian TV station Dozhd because of suspicions it was helping pro-Moscow troops taking part in the Ukraine war.

Reuters

Russian state journalist killed by ‘stray bullet’ at Crimea base

Svetlana Babayeva was head of the Rossiya Segodnya media group’s bureau in Simferopol, Crimea’s second-largest city.

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Russian independent TV Rain relaunches from abroad

The liberal-leaning Russian independent TV station Dozhd (TV Rain) resumed broadcasting on Monday evening from abroad after being forced to shut its Moscow studio following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters

Russian TV channel takes aim at 'Iron Curtain' from outside

When television reporters Tikhon Dzyadko and Ekaterina Kotrikadze left Russia with other colleagues in March, they left the country without one of its few major non-government media outlets.

Reuters

Huge majority of Russians believe Putin propaganda ‘and cannot be reached’, says head of shut-down TV station

Exclusive: Natalia Sindeeva, founder of Dozhd TV, says Putin is winning the Russian information war because of his brutal crackdown on independent media

The Independent UK

‘It was game over’: Russian journalists flee to Istanbul after Putin’s shutdown

Staff of independent media such as Dozhd TV are exiled abroad, wondering what to do next

The Guardian - UK

As a Russian news anchor, I was there when the free press ended in my country

At Dozhd we broadcast the truth about the war in Ukraine for as long as we dared. But for now, media freedom is over, says Russian journalist Denis Kataev

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Mood; Peaky Blinders; Killing Eve; Storyville: Tango With Putin

Nicôle Lecky bursts on to the screen in her sizzling lost girl tale; a final flourish for Killing Eve looks unlikely; and a chilling Storyville goes inside Russian TV station Dozhd

The Guardian - UK

Defiant to the last, Moscow’s media star takes aim at Putin’s brutal clampdown

Natalya Sindeyeva, the founder of Dozhd, struggled to the last but her TV station has been silenced – for now

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F@ck This Job review – optimism in short supply at Putin’s least favourite TV channel

The hip and satirical Dozhd channel run by a former Moscow socialite somehow survives in Russia despite its coverage of opposition politics and anti-Putin protests

The Guardian - UK

Meet Natalya Sindeyeva – has she got news for Vladimir Putin

A new documentary reveals how the director of Russia’s only independent TV channel refused to be cowed by the Kremlin and struggled to bring the truth to her audience

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