Additionally, alternative voices such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch and prominent Kremlin critic, and Ekaterina Shulman, a respected political scientist and commentator, are steadily gaining audiences. Both have been labelled as foreign agents or extremists in Russia.

Where do Russians get news?
In the past decade, Russia’s media landscape has undergone significant censorship due to increasing state control. radio stations have closed down and many journalists have left the country to be able to report.