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Anna Nemtsova Feb 16, 2021 9:45 PM ET Still, mass vaccination is “extremely slow, even by official data, on the level of the Netherlands, which started vaccinating a month later,” according to a recent report published in Novaya Gazeta, a Moscow-based investigative newspaper. Now, even after one of the world’s leading medical journals described the vaccine as “safe and effective,” Russia is only about 3 percent into its goal of vaccinating over 68 million citizens to reach a level of herd immunity. The Kremlin, it seems, has a long way to go. For many, the Russian government has brought this setback on itself. “The Kremlin’s propaganda is to blame,” Olga Bychkova, deputy editor-in-chief of the radio station Echo of Moscow, told The Daily Beast. Russian intelligence has been linked to an endless stream of pandemic disinformation in recent months, including using fake social media accounts to spread conspiracy theories claiming that the U.S. military is r ....
share At the end of last year, Russia adopted a number of new legal measures that many observers say are intended to further restrict the country s already state-dominated media sphere. Among other things, the government has begun placing individuals on its list of foreign-agent media, subjecting them to potential fines or prison sentences. The government has also criminalized online defamation. Russia s state media monitor, Roskomnadzor, this week drew up its first eight administrative protocols all of them targeting Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for allegedly violating the foreign agents law. The protocols target four of RFE/RL s Russian-language projects its main service for Russia, Radio Svoboda; the Current Time television and digital network; and Siberia.Reality and Idel.Reality, two regional sites delivering local news and information to audiences in Siberia and the Volga-Urals region. ....