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More than 100 interviews by Russian researchers have shed light on the different groups in Russian society who are pro-war—and why.

More than 100 new interviews by Russian researchers have shed light on the different groups in Russian society who are pro-war – and why

Pulitzer Center Hosts Conversation on Ukraine with PBS NewsHour. How do we understand the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine beyond the daily headlines? What are the far-reaching consequences for liberal democracies around the world? How do we assess this humanitarian crisis against others happening at the same time? On Wednesday March 23, 2022, Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer was joined by PBS NewsHour special correspondent and grantee Nick Schifrin for a conversation on th...

Western capitals and frankly whats being asked here on the street. >> any more protests, raf, happening across the country in russia, especially as theyre feeling the heat from these sanctions? >> reporter: so protests have been continuing, theyve been sporadic. whats interesting about them, yasmin, theyre spontaneous, org income and leaderless. so its not like alexei navalny or one of the high profile dissidents are behind them. theyre popping up on social media. one of the code words has been ...

Reference, president macron of france, made another phone call, 90 minutes he talked with vladimir vladimir putin, a source at the embassy palace said the expectation is the worst is yet to come and putin is intent on taking over the entire country and briefly here in moscow, continue to have those protests. theyre taking place everyday. the total of the number of people who have been arrested is somewhere around 8,000 and then on the information war side, two of the independent outlets that wou...

Organizational issues, supply issues with their military. theyve known that for a long time and have never been able to fix it. i would just say one other thing. segueing from the conversation you were just having. getting ready today to hear president biden speak to congress. speak to america. speak to the world. meanwhile, here in russia, what were seeing is president putin clamped down on peoples ability to hear whats really happening in ukraine. so radio echo moscow has been taken off air. y...

Alternative to the official narrative. a few independent russian media outlets who are still operating have been banned from referring to whats going on in ukraine as a war, as an invasion, as an attack. as you mentioned, echo moscow, one of the really prominent independent radio station, was taken off the air at the kremlins orders and has shut itself down. so that is permanent damage to whats left of the independent ecosystem in this country. another popular radio station splits its time 50/50...

Missiles hitting residential district, snow coverage of russian casualties, but the ongoing protests taking place inside of russia. in fact, yesterday, the last independent radio station, echo moscow, was shut down. the last independent ev station, tv rain, broadcasters final news. this warning, russian block sites like radio free europe, voice of america, and of course, the bbc. all while the russian bbc language, new site alone, reaching 10. 5 million people alone. more than triple its usual a...

Least seven interviews with russian speaking out lets on the independent media spectrum here. echo moscow radio one of them. closed down. another station closed down here tv rain closed down this week. i entr viewed an anchor a few weeks ago. she was telling me how worried they were. they were living under the spectrum of being shut down any minute. that has happened now. what the independent stations trying to do and take off the official air waves and now hoping to pop up on the internet and p...

Some protests and the russian president cracking down on those protests. but how far can he go in terms of russia and russians putting up with some of the things weve seen? >> youve just returned. youre a veteran of being there. you have seen the past crackdowns. "a," anything like this? "the new york times" is out, cnn is not broadcasting there. thats a symptom of the larger issue, the putin crackdown within russia for the russian people. what was your sense, is this different? is putin still f...