According to RIA Novosti, on Facebook,
The new law signed by Russia’s President Putin stipulates that foreign citizens, stateless persons and Russian citizens, who have citizenship of another country, are not entitled to act as founders of media companies.
Putin Limits Foreign Capital’s Participation in Russian Media: Government. My, what a pleasant and absolutely honest headline. Thank you, RIA Novosti!
Founders of media companies. In other words, one must be a Russian citizen to “found” a media company in Russia. I would venture to guess that if a Russian founded a media company and sold it to a “foreign citizen)s), stateless person(s) and Russian citizen(s), who has (have) citizenship of another country” the Russian government would find a way to retroactively apply that standard as well.
I wonder if this applies to any international broadcasting corporations attempting to broadcast inside of Russia?
I wonder how they will apply this to the internet? Will this enable them to block foreign sources of information?
This measure increases the leverage that the Russian government has over media. This furthers the Russian government’s absolute control over the media. Control. Is there any freedom of the press any more?
Filed under: Information operations, Information Warfare, Propaganda, Russia Tagged: #RussiaFail, #RussiaLies
