from russian eyes. my guest is tikhon dzyadko, editor in chief of dozhd or tv or tv rain, founded as an independent tv channel in moscow, now broadcasting from riga. are russians ready to question what their government tells them? tikhon dzyadko in riga, latvia, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me here. it s a great pleasure to have you on this show. now, it strikes me this past year has been one of extraordinary challenge and 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 kno
now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. as russia s war on ukraine grinds into a second year, how complete is vladimir putin s control of the home front? critics of the war risk prison, independent media outlets have been closed down, and the kremlin propaganda machine has been supercharged. but thanks to the internet, the costs of this war cannot be entirely hidden from russian eyes. my guest is tikhon dzyadko, editor in chief of dozhd or tv rain, founded as an independent tv channel in moscow, now broadcasting from riga. are russians ready to question what their government tells them? tikhon dzyadko in riga, latvia, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me here. it s a great pleasure to have you on this show. now, it strikes me this past year has been one of extraordinary challenge and disruption for you at tv rain. the reason, i guess, is simple vladimir putin would like to see you cease to exist. how close
are you ready for president kamala harris? we ve got her latest word salad. that s coming up tonight. new details from the federal criminal investigation into the biden family syndicate. wait until you hear donald trump s brand-new nickname for joey biden. it s a little bit reminiscent of hillary but we ll put it that way. karine jean-pierre was caught lying about joe on her cheat sheet. it even had to say you. you ve got to be kidding me. at had to remind them who was in his own cabinet. that s how bad it was. we have bad economic news but we have never a good economic news with him as president. the rate down the great larry kudlow right here in the studio. but first tonight a big day for joe biden. perhaps his favorite time of the year. it was bring your kid to work day to the white house. it was! for once hunter biden was nowhere to be found. joe was in rare form you guys are killing me tonight. joe was in rare form. somehow he resisted the urge to sniff and squeeze
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and that the russian pilots were just provocative and incompetent amateurs. make no mistake. this was no accident. i can guarantee you that vladamir putin personally signed off on this military aggression. here s our very own gennifer griffin. i d just like to get your reaction to what happened today in the black sea. pissed off. i mean, just be honest about this for a second. the report coming out of our government is that this was an unprofessional act and environmentally unsound. i m sorry, folks. they shot down a united states warplane. they took it out of action. that s the response we get back? not very happy about it. bottom line is we cannot allow that to happen. hannity: that s right. we can t allow this to happen. russia and putin s hostility and aggression against our country, the united states, has now reached a dangerous new height. now tonight the question is this. what will your president, joe biden, do? is he going to offer maybe another waiver for the n