Russia used to be number 40 on the list of VPN users. It is now number one. This is mostly the young and the educated, but they really do matter. The other channel is YouTube. You don't need a VPN to access it. TV, rain, air is both radio and now video is broadcasting via YouTube. And you can even listen to radio station by simply turning on stream it now.
As part of The Economist’s new series on the remaking of the country's economy, our correspondent looks at the Biden administration’s audacious industrial plans. Russia’s media outlets have been relentlessly squeezed, so many have set up newsrooms in exile; we examine the rise of “offshore journalism”. And reflecting on the life of Gina Lollobrigida, a remarkable, irrepressible, impenitent Italian actress.
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