One way or another, Russian citizens are tunnelling under firewalls to reach publicly funded broadcasters.
and the radio station Echo of Moscow, have shut down. Many Western news organizations have left the country, and the Russian government has blocked access to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Yet the more surprising fact is how broadly those efforts are being subverted. One way or another, Russian citizens are tunnelling under firewalls to reach publicly funded broadcasters, such as the BBC and Germany’s Deutsche Welle.
To fill other gaps in official coverage, RFE/RL has focussed on the critical supply shortages confronting ordinary Russian citizens. To rally citizens around the flag, government propagandists often focus on the withdrawal of McDonald’s and other iconic foreign brands. “They say, ‘We know how to grow cabbages in our cottage gardens. It doesn’t matter,’ ” Sindelar said. But that obscures how poorly the leadership has equipped the country to survive without critical foreign goods and services.
To get around Russian blockades, foreign-government-backed broadcasters are relying on an array of tools, both high-tech and low. The BBC recently revived shortwave broadcasts for Russia and eastern Ukraine, and the U.S. has launched a satellite channel and is looking into upgrading the reach of its AM broadcasts, in the hope that they will be easier for people to access than shortwave.
The Open Technology Fund—the incubator under the umbrella of the Agency for Global Media—has also helped develop free V.P.N.s, including nthLink and Psiphon. Moreover, in 2013, the agency invested four hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars in an encryption technology that eventually contributed to the creation of the Signal app. I asked Powers how that connected to journalism.
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