from russian eyes. my guest is tikhon dzyadko, editor in chief of dozhd or tv or tv rain, founded as an independent tv channel in moscow, now broadcasting from riga. are russians ready to question what their government tells them? tikhon dzyadko in riga, latvia, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me here. it s a great pleasure to have you on this show. now, it strikes me this past year has been one of extraordinary challenge and
you think a post putin russia would allow a tv channel such as yours to return to moscow? because many people think that the repression and the authoritarianism may be worse. no, frankly, i do not agree with such position. i think that after putin leaves, the situation in russia will be absolutely better than with putin. nothing could be worse than russia with putin. those who will be after putin will have to change the country, will have to start negotiations with the west, and it will be a different russia. tikhon dzyadko, i thank you very much indeed forjoining me from riga. thanks a lot. thank you so much.
do you know who else, which tv station also showed a map of russia with crimea? it was ukrainian tv station freedom. also, it was french german tv station arte. also, it was tv station from slovakia. why am i saying this? because it was a mistake which could happen anywhere. a designer took a map from internet. this reportage was ready too late, no one checked it, that s how it happened. but. and this. no, i get that, tikhon. i suppose what i m, in a sense, striving to understand is how far you can go in your outright criticism of russia right now, and still hope to reach that audience we talked about the hesitant russians who you want to reach
now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. as russia s war on ukraine grinds into a second year, how complete is vladimir putin s control of the home front? critics of the war risk prison, independent media outlets have been closed down, and the kremlin propaganda machine has been supercharged. but thanks to the internet, the costs of this war cannot be entirely hidden from russian eyes. my guest is tikhon dzyadko, editor in chief of dozhd or tv rain, founded as an independent tv channel in moscow, now broadcasting from riga. are russians ready to question what their government tells them?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Tikhon Dzyadko, editor-in-chief of Russia s independent TV news channel Dozhd (or TV Rain). Is there a Russian audience for this.