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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Isobel Koshiw

Russia accused of trying to use TV to create Ukraine ‘digital ghetto’

A man walks past a billboard displaying the ‘Z’ symbol in support of Russian armed forces in Crimea
A man walks past a billboard displaying the ‘Z’ symbol in support of Russian armed forces in Chernomorskoye, Crimea. Photograph: Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters

Russia has introduced a free package of satellite channels for residents living in occupied Ukraine that critics say is an attempt to create a “digital ghetto”.

The package is called Russkiy Mir, or Russian World, which has become a byword for the propaganda Russia seeks to spread outside its borders, focusing on its imperial greatness and the outside enemies determined to destroy it, namely the west.

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