Click to expand Image Tikhon Dzyadko, editor-in-chief of TV-Rain, at their newsroom in Moscow in August 2021. On July 25, 2023, Russia's prosecutor general declared the station to be an "undesirable" organization. 2021 REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina This week, Russian authorities banned TV Rain, a prominent independent online broadcaster, as "undesirable," accusing it of spreading false information about Russia's war on Ukraine, "discrediting" the military and government, and quoting other banned outlets. Since 2015, Russia's "undesirables" law has allowed the country's prosecutor general to ban any foreign organization that allegedly undermines Russia's security, defense, or constitutional order. Russian citizens who continue to be involved with such "undesirables" face a criminal penalty of up to six years in prison. TV Rain, like several others designated "undesirable," is not foreign. But its team of Russ