Kremlin Media Wars: Censorship and Control Since the Invasion of Ukraine [Hardcover]

?1. Introduction: Post-Soviet censorship and regulation in Russia

Part I: Understanding censorship and Internet regulation in Russia

2. Criminalizing independent journalism: 20th century controls on the 21st century media.

3. The Russian Media System: From the Soviet model to the special military operation.

4. The history of Russian media regulation: Strategic communication and information environment transformation from the Kursk submarine disaster to the Crocus City terror attack.

5. Try Instagramming in Russia or the rise of digital authoritarianism.

6. Essay: Wartime Propaganda: Stalin during the Great Patriotic War and Putins special operation.

7. Essay: How the Russian liberal media lost an audience of 65 million: A view from inside the information bubble.

Part II: Working under Kremlin censorship

8. Essay: Media in exile: from samizdat to VPN.

9. Tactics of Russias independent media during the war in Ukraine.

10. Russian military censorship, like the Russian warship, can go f*** itself. An analysis of Russian independent media response to wartime media freedom restrictions.

11. Essay:?The High Price of Self-Censorship.?

12. Wartime Transformation of Novaya Gazeta.

13. Understanding Russian leadership by analysing recent trends in Russian opposition media.

Part III: Censorship beyond politics

14. Essay:?Did the Western media misjudge Putin?

15. ?Essay: How gender roles are being reinforced in Putins brave new patriarchy.

16. Transphobia as a weapon of wló)