The Samizdat Mechanism vs. Russian Propaganda (with Yevgeny Simkin)

Giselle and Iulia are joined by Yevgeny Simkin, co-founder of "Samizdat Online", an organization which aims to gather all voices of the world that suffer under autocratic repression and reunite those voices with their audiences. Yevgeny explains how his organization reaches Russians, inundated with propaganda from the Kremlin, by collecting stories and news articles - which otherwise would be blocked in Russia for political reasons, like the website Meduza - translating them in to Russian where applicable, and by using unique technological tricks to share this banned content through easy-to-share SOS-Link™ links. Yevgeny explains how his team sidesteps Russia's draconian content censorship to share the hidden truth with Russians blinded by years of government propaganda.Show notes: Samizdat Online; "Why Ukraine Is Dangerous to Putin" by Yevgeny Simkin; "A new media project is working to sneak blocked media into Russia and wants to become a hub for press freedom in totalitarian regimes" in Business Insider

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Ensuring the balance of power in Europe has, since the inception of our republic, been a core security interest for the US. Today, and for the entire post-Cold War period, the challenges to the European peace have emerged along the line running roughly from the Baltic to the Black Sea. This is what we call the Eastern Front. Our goal in this podcast is to better inform the American people about what’s going on there. Join us, Iulia Joja and Dalibor Rohac every week on in our discussions on what’s next for “The Eastern Front.”