Vladimir Putin in front of the screen Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin Pool/Planet Pix Via Zuma Press Wire/Scanpix The war with Ukraine became not only an external conflict for the Russian regime, but also a powerful instrument of internal control. Under the pretext of “special operations”, power enhances censorship, twists nuts and pushes controversial laws, such as fines for the search for “extremist” content on the Internet, trying to build a digital gulag for complete control over citizens.

The author’s cycle of journalist Ksenia Luchenko* “Revision 2.0” starts on the Republician Cycle on how and what Russian -speaking media and independent journalism live today. He is the heir to the project “Journalism: Revision” , which was published in 2023 on the colta.ru portal. Two years later, we decided to make another measurement - what is happening with the media space today.

The public environment requires quick responses, including art people. This haste of reactions is able to depreciate even the suffered protest statements. In his weekly column, Maxim Trustlyubov reflects on how fair such criticism is and whether the art can be a response to the requirements of the time. The current public environment, not only Russian -speaking, but also global, is built around an immediate reaction.

It is believed that in Russia they do not introduce official censorship, because it is prohibited by the Constitution. Therefore, the authorities, and especially the power block, have to dodge, inventing not very comfortable, or even exotic censorship tools, attracting destructists and other false experts for this. Konstantin Shavlovsky believes that the law on these circumstances is more needed by the authors than the state, and therefore it will not be.