his heavy-handed riot police routinely drag antiwar protesters off the streets. draconian new laws ban criticism of the war, max penalty, 15 years in jail. access to facebook and twitter restricted. and since the war began, russia's few remaining independent media outlets have been shot down, including tv rain, whose viewership rocketed, the news director fled for safety. >> there are many people, a lot of people, millions of russians who understand that something terrible is going on and who understand that they need this alternative sources of information. >> reporter: not all dissenters stifled. news editor took her protest prime time on the kremlin's most popular propaganda machine, channel one, and was quickly convicted of organizing a public