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Many Russians have joined protests against their government after the invasion of Ukraine. Law enforcement has been seen trying to break up the protests.

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One of Russia's leading television stations aired a history lesson on the battle between German and Russian forces in Poland during the 18th century.

In a nation where the Kremlin exercises near-universal control, it was typical of media coverage to portray it as a nationalist propaganda. In radio and television, that control is visible. Russian President Vladimir Putin could face a new challenge as he faces domestic and international opprobrium for his attack on Ukraine.

The Kremlin is grappling with ways to keep the cracks in that dam from forming, according to an expert on Russia. China was able to seal off its information space in a way that Russia failed to do.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, hands folded and with a half-smile, sits on a gilt-encrusted chair in the Kremlin and leans into microphone.
Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with members of Russian business community in the Kremlin. (Alexei Nikolsky/Tass via Getty Images)

Putin and his propagandists can only do so much to keep reality out of phones and laptops, which makes his control of traditional outlets all the more urgent.

The control of classic media is complete, according to Janis Kluge of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.

A host on a Thursday evening program amplified anti-Ukrainian sentiment on the radio station Komsomolskaya Pravda. He seemed to suggest that the sympathies of the Russian people lay with Putin, who has claimed his invasion has been necessary.

One Komsomolskaya Pravda listener said in an email that they need to take Kyiv sooner than later. The host of a Moscow-based radio show promised that the right-wing Ukrainian nationalists would be sorted out once Russia occupied the country.

In recent days, Russian media has been filled with stories about World War II and the vituperative attacks on Ukraine and its Western allies. The antiwar protests that have broken out in St. Petersburg and Moscow are proof that even the media can't change the narrative in favor of Putin.

Young demonstrators march with a makeshift banner that reads, in Russian: Ukraine — peace, Russia — freedom.
Demonstrators march with a banner that reads: "Ukraine — peace, Russia — freedom," in Moscow on Thursday, after Russia's attack on Ukraine. (Dmitry Serebryakov/AP Photo)

Dozens of leading Russian journalists have signed an open letter against war. In a country where 58 journalists have been assassinated since 1992 for holding opposition views, putting one's name on such a condemnation amounts to an act of personal and professional courage.

The Russian people don't want a war, according to a Ukrainian-American foreign policy expert. She suggested that Putin doesn't have the popular support he did when he invaded Ukraine eight years ago, as the Russian populace is weary with the coronaviruses.

Western TV outlets broadcast footage of young Russians crowding the streets of the nation, chanting antiwar slogans.

Russian media is a branch of the Kremlin tasked with carrying out its imperatives.

Peter Adams of the News Literacy Project told Yahoo News that they aren't independent and aren't there to hold government accountable. The Russian media is trying to maintain the barest semblance of fairness and independence while avoiding criticism of the Kremlin, according to Adams.

Russian media are required to use information from official Russian sources on the military operations in Ukraine, according to a Russian regulatory body. A $60,000 fine is possible for violating that order.

Many outlets don't need reminders. The network blamed the Ukrainians for starting the conflict, ignoring the fact that it was Putin who pushed Eastern Europe into war.

Veterans of the Ukrainian National Guard Azov battalion, some not in uniform, but all holding rifles, conduct military exercises in a snowy landscape.
Veterans of the Ukrainian National Guard Azov Battalion conduct military exercises for civilians in Kyiv on Feb. 6. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

The Azov Battalion, a small nationalist outfit that has been embraced by the military establishment, was depicted as having instigated Russian aggression in an act of classic Soviet script-flipping.

The ethnic Russian residents of the eastern border province of Donetsk welcomed the assault because of the oppression they had been facing from the Ukrainians, according to a correspondent.

If Russia hadn't invaded the nation, there wouldn't have been a war. The scale of protests that broke out on Thursday supports the view that Putin miscalculated in launching the invasion.

The Ukrainian forces have put up a determined resistance and have thus far prevented Putin from getting an easy victory.

Michael Weiss is an expert on Russia who is writing a book on the nation's intelligence services. Weiss told Yahoo News that news outlets are forced to sell a war many of them did not expect, against a neighbor who shares a similar culture and history.

Weiss said that this is Slav on Slav.

In a brightly lit street, a Russian police officer wearing a face covering with only his eyes visible grabs from behind a women demonstrator who is screaming in anguish.
Police officers detain a demonstrator in Moscow on Thursday during a protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)

The displacement of refugees from the Russia-controlled regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, which had been part of Ukraine until pro-Russian rebels seized them in 2014, has been shown by media outlets. The United States imposed sanctions on Putin's forces there after he sent peacekeeping forces there.

The extent to which mainstream Ukrainian society harbors nationalist and Nazi elements has been overstated.

Adams of the News Literacy Project told Yahoo News that the art of their propaganda is often in the framing.

Many other nations that Russia has not invaded have a similar legacy of nationalism and antisemitism. Zelensky is a Jew.

Russian media reported that their journalists were being shot at. It is difficult to know if those reports are true, but they stand in stark contrast to the acquiescence that has accompanied two decades in which journalists critical of the Kremlin have been hounded, jailed and sometimes murdered.

Today's Novaya Gazeta front page. The title reads "Russia bombs Ukraine" and sub, in both Russian and Ukrainian, "Novaya Gazeta considers the war madness, it does not see the Ukrainian people as enemy and the Ukrainian language as enemy language". pic.twitter.com/HzwlEjB5wO

— Mariya Petkova (@mkpetkova) February 25, 2022

When Putin came to power two decades ago, an independent media existed, but he has steadily closed off most avenues of dissent, creating a flattened media ecosystems whose shape he has shaped almost entirely on his own.

Even an authoritarian leader can't completely shape reality. It was inevitable that some mainstream outlets would acknowledge the facts about what the Kremlin was doing.

The front page of Novaya Gazeta, a left-leaning newspaper, was the starkest of those acknowledgments. There are bombs. The headline said Ukraine.

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