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Symbolic, pepsico, in particular because it was the first western brand to be sold and manufactured in the soviet union. they set up manufacturing in the soviet union as long ago as 1974. they have quite a bigger meaning in russia and. coca-cola has announced suspending operations. mcdonalds, people will remember in 1990, how they opened in the square in moscow, 5,000 people for more than six hours to get a taste of western fast food. very big symbolic announcement from mcdonalds. they have 850 ...

>> and given the threat to opposition leaders like yourself, to journalists, to protesters, its remarkable. something you told me years ago that always sticks with me, dont talk about russians, talk about the russian administration, the russian government the putin regime because russians are not onside with this thing but you advocate something interesting. you advocate for western countries democratic nations to produce more russian language journalism that shows whats actually happening in uk...

Joining me now is former under secretary of state of public diplomacy and affairs in the obama administration, richard. he is also an msnbc political analyst. also with us, former cia officer for 26 years and deputy chief of operations for the europe and asia mission center. he was one of the most highly decorated officers. lets talk about misinformation and disinformation inside russia, western outlets and western reporters have mostly left that country. what does it mean for russias ability to...

Doubling down on his repressive strategy~ — doubling down on his repressive strategy. it is really the only tool he has _ strategy. it is really the only tool he has left in his toolkit. we know the economic sanctions have been punishing, — the economic sanctions have been punishing, the response of the private — punishing, the response of the private sector and the withdrawal of all of _ private sector and the withdrawal of all of these western companies, mcdonalds, starbucks, all of them...

Blocking access to both facebook, and twitter. the russian dumas, the parliament, made it illegal, and punishable, by 15 years in prison to report anything that the russian government teams to be false information about the war in ukraine. oh, by the way, russia does not call it a war, and neither can the reporters there. they are calling it a special military operation. so, all of the news that you see coming out of russia has to come from the government itself. the bbc, announcing today, this ...

People surrounding the president are using the western sanctions as an opportunity to further harden the regime. we already see evidence of that, it reports about massive arrests of the protesters. these arrays are different from what we have observed from regime previously. before, before the war in ukraine, if you protest against the russian government you get arrested, you get a small fine and you get released the next day. now we are seeing reports of brutal police beatings, torture, and the...

Country. obviously the new laws have put restrictions on journalists, but were very committed to continuing to tell that story. >> so how do your journalists in moscow or around russia do that without violating the law? >> i dont want to get into too many operational details because i want to protect their ability to do so, but i can tell you that these are decisions and conversations that we have every day, multiple times a day, and we really feel strongly. we cover a lot of difficult places ar...

Major league baseballs deadline to reach a new collective bargaining agreement in time to apreserve the season has been passed, no deal reached for the second time in a week. but the ap and other outlets report shortly after 9:00 a.m. on the 90th day of the walkout, the mlb said that talks will reconvene later this morning. and for the first time in at least a week or two theres a glimmer of hope. both sides made some movement on the deal. theyre not close, issues remain, but theres some positiv...

Here largely now looking at state—controlled media, the independent press very much silence. there are outlets but it is difficult for them to operate. there are still protests on almost a daily basis. yesterday an independent monitoring group said around 90 people were arrested for demonstrating to whatjournalists are no longer legally allowed to refer to as a war or invasion in ukraine. poland has taken in the most ukrainian refugees — welcoming more than one—point—two million across i...

Accident, that you will spend the rest of your life in prison. and juxtapose that with them telling you at various times that your release is imminent, it might happen tomorrow, it might happen this afternoon. the confusion that that breeds are not having any outlets or opportunity to bounce this information off anybody you can rely on is designed to make one go mad and it works. but, you know, again, i spent a lot of time communicating with richard and with the family of anoosheh ashoori and th...