Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, has not succumbed to the war censorship in Moscow. He also talks about the dangers of nuclear war.
Russia is shutting down the media, which is reporting critically on the war in Ukraine. The most recent example was seen today, Thursday, when the television channel Dožd announced it would stop broadcasting.
Tomorrow, Friday, the lower house of parliament will discuss in a special session a bill that would criminalize the dissemination of “false news” about the war in Ukraine.
Narrowing would result in a severe sentence of 15 years in prison.
According to opinion polls, more than two out of three Russians support their country’s “special operation” in Ukraine.
– Ordinary people do not really support the war, and especially not the war in Ukraine. Nowhere is there an opinion in favor of war, Muratov said.
He assesses the state of the Russian elite in a different way.
– Se [eliitti] bends completely Putin will. It seems that it has begun to believe in its own propaganda.
According to Muratov, President Vladimir Putin has already destroyed the future of Russian youth.
There is a danger of nuclear war
Dmitry Muratov, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, also shared his views on Thursday To the European Parliament. (switch to another service) The 60-year-old veteran journalist did not beautify his estimates of what an exacerbated situation could lead to at worst.
– The threat of nuclear war exists. That would be a nightmare, of course, but I do not rule out the possibility that at some point you may be tempted to press a nuclear button.
Muratov refers to President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrovin comments to the public.
Lavrov said yesterday that if World War III broke out, it would use nuclear weapons.