Speaking out in any explicit way about the war on VK, OK or any other native social media app is still a risk that carries jail time. The Russian government is also known to trump up charges for things that aren’t explicitly illegal, but displease the government. Talk about the war in Ukraine on VK and OK is incredibly limited, with words like “war,” “invasion” and “assault” banned in the context of the conflict. OK is more popular with older users and women, while VK is more popular with men.Īccording to Sensor Tower, downloads for both apps were up 16% in the second week of March when compared to the same period of time last year, likely because more popular apps like Instagram are no longer available. Endless possibilities.” A digital iron curtainĭespite the bans and blocks of many Western social media apps, Russians still have access to homegrown options like VKontakte (VK) and Odnoklassniki (OK), which are the platforms most similar to Facebook in the country. “When Russia increases their censorship, people just move to smaller, lesser-known apps or VPNs,” said Valentin Weber, a cyber-research fellow with the German Council on Foreign Relations. But others are finding coded ways to speak out about the war on the social media apps that remain functional in the country, using VPNs and Tor browsers to access Western media sites, and maxing out what little freedom they have on remaining non-Russian platforms like Telegram. Some no doubt support the Kremlin and just want access to the internet they're used to. But some Russians, especially young people, are finding workarounds.
When Moscow passed a law declaring any media countering the Kremlin’s narrative as “ fake news,” most Russians lost access to accurate reporting about the war in Ukraine. Facebook parent company Meta was ruled guilty of “ extremist” activities, Facebook and Instagram were banned, TikTok was limited to only show Russian content and Twitter access was restricted. In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russians have fewer options for freely finding and sharing information online.
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Screenshots from the cartoon are shared as memes, with the hare a stand-in for free speech, and the Kremlin the wolf. Today, the allegory has become coded language for some Russians’ feelings about the Russia-Ukraine war and the government’s censorship of pro-Ukrainian narratives. The Soviet-era cartoon was the USSR’s Tom & Jerry. In each episode, the wolf desperately chases the hare - often injured and tricked by the hare’s friends along the way - but never catches him. “ Nu, Pogodi,” translated into English as, “Well, Just You Wait!” is a Russian children’s cartoon about a wolf and a hare.
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