Russian propagandists are now banned from writing about military crimes in the Russian Federation, so that they “cannot be considered potential criminals.”
The Russian Presidential Administration issued new instructions to the state and pro-government Russian media. In particular, they should not publish news about the crimes of Russians who returned from the war in Ukraine: mercenaries and prisoners. The Russian publication Meduza, which positions itself as the opposition, announced this on Tuesday, October 24, in connection with the employees of the publications close to the authorities.
The interlocutors clarified that they had not been sent to them before. Previously, the media published similar news, because “crime always gives good traffic, and mentioning SVO in the title warms up the audience and makes the news more clickable.”
In mid-October, one of the publications reported that a former PMC mercenary Wagner returns from the war and stabs his disabled grandmother to death for money.
The interlocutor of the publication, close to the administration of the Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, explained that the restrictions on such news “are overdue so that the Russians do not consider the fighters as potential criminals and are not afraid of their coming back.” According to him, the real “patriotic journalists” and on the recommendations of the Kremlin understood the “inappropriateness” of such publications.
Another source said it was “a desire to show that really respectful, sympathetic and caring people are coming back from the front.”
Let’s recall that in early August it became known that in Karelia, an amnesty prisoner of Wagner who returned from the war in Ukraine, together with a friend, killed six people.
Source: korrespondent
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