Journalists impeded, not muzzled, by Russian reporting rules ap.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ap.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
NEW YORK: In a recent dispatch from Moscow, BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg noted that a new Russian law required him to refer to the invasion of Ukraine as a “special military operation.” Then he quoted a Russian human rights lawyer who liberally used what is now a forbidden word: “war.” The restrictions on how news organizations can report in Russia, which carry punishment