so-called oligarchs and family members with 27 big shots affected appear in the u.k. has put out its own round of sanctions just 1 yard of one of these cronies and seen as reportedly, guys get reddit of this three quarters of a billion dollars. the proceeds of the sale of that could just go a little bit to help prepare and a better ukraine right now, back to you. carley: that is a great way to use the money. thank you for joining us live from london, we appreciate it. todd: the media outlets with operations with threats of closures from authorities. nl fleeing the country fearing for their safety. 23rd final to say goodbye to the viewers. editor in chief speaking from a safe location saying are bidden to call the invasion of ukraine a war.
they have no other place to turn to than to stand up for russia because everybody is against us. it is possible but there is also ambassador mcfaul things are breaking through. i heard about this meme given the law you can t do quote unquote fake news including calling the war in ukraine a war. the joke has come up among young moscow residents that it s security operation in peace instead of war in peace. they re making fun of it. there seems to be some of it seeping through. what do you make of this sort of turning of sort of russia into cuba or into north korea at this point? that is what vladimir putin accomplished so far. well, he s trying to. like nina said, he s trying to and he s going farther than even during cold war days. i mean, if western media outlets are forced to leave because of
arrested since the invasion began. it s been getting increasingly difficult to cover the protest because the russian state is blocking access to major for news outlets and president vladimir putin signed a law that makes a criminal for a journalist even called the invasion of ukraine a war. peter pomerantsev has been covering this utopian reality of russia for years. adventures in the war against a senior fellow studying disinformation and propaganda at john absconds university. he joins me now. peter, can you talk about what you see as a significance to a place that already didn t really have much of a free press being cracked down on so heavily? in just the last few weeks? well, they didn t have much of a free press but it wasn t like a cold war system. he had internet access. anything you want it if you are ready to search for it. there was a small group of very plucky, very brave independent
invasion of ukraine a war. peter pomerantsev has been covering this utopian reality of russia for years. writing several books on the russian disinformation home in abroad. he is now a senior fellow studying propaganda at john hopkins university. and he joins me now. peter, can you talk about what you see as a significance to a place that already didn t really have much of a free press being cracked down on so heavily? in just the last few weeks? well, they didn t have much of a free press but it wasn t like a cold war system. he had internet access. anything you want it if you are ready to search for it. there was a small group of very plucky, very brave independent media. now that s gone. above everything else aside from the kremlin, we ve gone from being an authoritarian regime to full-on stall in two point oh.