Ep. 208: Dodging censorship in Russia

On today’s episode, we discuss Alexei Navalny’s death, Vladimir
Putin, censorship in Russia, and Samizdat Online, an
anti-censorship platform that grants users living under
authoritarian regimes access to news and other censored content.
Yevgeny “Genia” Simkin is the co-founder of Samizdat Online and
Stanislav “Stas” Kucher is its chief content officer.


 


Timestamps


 


0:00 Introduction 


2:25 Alexei Navalny 


8:53 The state of Russian opposition


20:48 The origins of Samizdat Online


28:17 How does Samizdat Online circumvent censorship? 


35:16 Could Yevgeny Prigozhin have overthrown Putin?


41:03 The progression of Putin’s regime 


58:08 How can people help? 


59:56 Outro


 


Show notes


 


Statement by Russian prison service on Alexei Navalny’s death


The Anti-Corruption Foundation (nonprofit established by Alexei
Navalny)


Samizdat Online


“Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible” by Peter Pomerantsev


Transcript


 


Past related episodes


 


Ep. 108: A history of (dis)information wars in the Soviet Union
and beyond


Ep. 156: What Russians don’t know about the war in Ukraine


Ep. 157: Former BBC bureau chief Konstantin Eggert and what you
need to know about censorship in Russia