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Disruption for you at tv rain. the reason, i guess, is simple — vladimir putin would like to see you cease to exist. how close to ceasing to exist has it come for you? well, we can say that, last march, tv rain, or dozhd, died. we were out of air for four months because, at the beginning of march, we were forced to leave the country, and most of ourjournalists left the country, and the tv station stopped operating. but then injuly, we decided to relaunch the tv station here in riga, and also we have a studio in amsterdam, because we know that millions and millions of people in russia, they a...

Messages and calls. this year, after i left russia, i did not receive any threats. you, at tv rain, are soon going to make another move, i believe you're moving your headquarters to amsterdam, because you've lost your formal broadcast licence in latvia, because of some of the things that we just discussed, some of the issues with your transmissions from latvia, so you're going to amsterdam. can you imagine a time when tv rain returns to its home city, moscow, and is freely able to broadcast from moscow? i'm probably being optimistic, but i think it will happen a couple of years from now, maybe...

People who call for regime change, as you havejust done with me, russians, they often face a very real threat to their lives, both inside russia and, some of them, outside russia. are you fearful right now? no. no, iam not. have you been threatened? i was threatened before i left russia. it was the third day of the war, i guess, when i was getting text messages and calls. this year, after i left russia, i did not receive any threats. you, at tv rain, are soon going to make another move, i believe you're moving your headquarters to amsterdam, cos you've lost your formal broadcast licence in lat...

Four months because, at the beginning of march, we were forced to leave the country, and most of ourjournalists left the country, and the tv station stopped operating. but then injuly, we decided to relaunch the tv station here in riga, and also we have a studio in amsterdam, because we know that millions and millions of people in russia, they are eager to get independent information, primarily about this war, but about the situation in russia as well. how do you know that? can you reasonably measure your audience? cos, of course, right now it's an internet audience. it's via your youtube chan...

Come in and buy a hat for your avatar. the fabricant, in amsterdam, is going all in. they only make digital clothes here. what's your favourite? this one, i think — the one i'm wearing is my favourite. the sort of feels to me like it's elizabethan maybe... yeah, yeah. amberjae slooten is the co—founder and lead designer. when we started, everybody called us crazy, because they were like, "why would you need this?" but we strongly believed in the idea that in the future, people would wear the digital items. what we wanted to do is take the two things that clothing is apart. what we wanted t...