max penalty, 15 years in jail. access to facebook and twitter, restricted. and since the war began, rush's few remaining independent media outlets have been shut down, including tv raid, whose viewership rocketed. the news director and anchor anchor fled for safety. >> there are many people, a lot of people, millions of russians, who understand that something terrible is going on, and understand that they need these alternatives are sources of information. >> reporter: not all dissenters stifled. a news editor took her antiwar protests prime time on the kremlin's most popular propaganda machine, channel 1, and was quickly convicted of organizing a public event. >> i have been working on channel 1, and doing prep kremlin propaganda, and now i am very ashamed of it. it is a shame that i allowed lies to come from the tv screens, a shame that i helped