What percentage of russians are getting their information only from the state? I can't give you an exact figure, because it would be really hard to gage whether people are sonely solely consuming news from state media. But i would wager that for about 60 %, it's their primary source. There is no independent, there are no independent i chanels in russia. The older generation mostly rely on the state medium, on television. You get a jump through a few hoops to access independent information in Russia. And ye, that's what prevents a lot of people from acessing it. Right in order to see this as an illegal war, in order to
It depends a lot on where they get their news. Meduza’s Aleksey Kovalev reports from Moscow.
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