.mashagessen reports on the scene at TV Rain, when the Russian government blocked the station on Tuesday night.
, who enumerated the stories of heroism and resolve that Ukrainians had racked up in just a few days: “The president who refused to flee the capital, telling the US that he needs ammunition, not a ride; the soldiers from Snake Island who told a Russian warship to ‘go fuck yourself’; the civilians who tried to stop Russian tanks by sitting in their path. This is the stuff nations are built from. In the long run, these stories count for more than tanks.
Fishman and Dzyadko continued the news broadcast, now available to viewers in Russia only on TV Rain’s YouTube stream. People—current and former staff members and a couple of friends of the channel—started gathering in the loft. Vassily Azarov, a muscular, bespectacled twenty-eight-year-old editor, had left work around eight, read the news on the metro, and returned. “My wife and I have been arguing about what’s going to happen here,” he said.
A cacophony of voices joined the joke. “That’s the last drop!” “I kept wondering, How would we know that it was over?” Meanwhile, some of the younger staffers were leaving the loft, casually waving on their way out and saying, “See you tomorrow.” About twenty people stayed, waiting for Dzyadko to speak to the staff. It was almost midnight when he emerged from the green room, looking pale under a thick layer of television makeup.
The logic of his decision was clear to everyone present. Two days earlier, the prosecutor’s office had announced that it would start applying a dormant and arcane law that makes it possible to charge anyone with high treason for virtually any reason. The law makes it a crime to provide “financial, material, consultative, or other assistance” to foreign or international organizations, punishable by twelve to twenty years in prison.
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