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Putin's control over Ukraine war news is not total - it's challenged by online news and risk-taking journalists

  • Written by Sarah Oates, Professor and Senior Scholar, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
imageA woman looks at a computer screen as Russian state news editor Marina Ovsyannikova protests the Ukraine war during a news segment.AFP via Getty Images

The Russian media is a powerful propaganda machine. Russian media outlets have been closely controlled by the government over the past several decades, and since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24,...

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