Ukrainan konflikti/sota

The Russian government took steps Friday to further limit what its citizens can see in media and on the internet: “slowing” access to Facebook and ordering state and independent outlets to use only governmental sources in their reporting on Ukraine.

Russia will “partially restrict access in the form of slowing down traffic” to the social-media platform, Russia’s telecommunications agency said, in response to Facebook’s own “restricting” of four state-owned media sites: the Zvezda TV channel, the RIA Novosti news agency, and the Lenta.ru and Gazeta.ru Internet sites.

Nick Clegg, vice president of global affairs at Facebook’s parent company Meta, tweeted on Friday, “Yesterday, Russian authorities ordered us to stop the independent fact checking and labeling of contact posted on Facebook by Russian state-owned media organizations. We refused. As a result, they have announced they will be restricting the use of our services.”

The agency, Roskomnadzor, also told the country’s official and private-sector media outlets on Friday that ”they are obliged to use information and data received by them only from official Russian sources” when talking or writing about “a special operation in connection with the situation in the LPR and DPR”—that is, Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

Russian rulers have for centuries sought to restrict public knowledge and discussion, reaching a censorious peak under the Soviet Union that Vladimir Putin has sought to recapture. Last year, a Freedom House report said, “Although the constitution provides for freedom of speech, vague laws on extremism grant the authorities great discretion to crack down on any speech, organization, or activity that lacks official support.” The report added, “The government controls, directly or through state-owned companies and friendly business magnates, all of the national television networks and many radio and print outlets, as well as most of the media advertising market.”

Since 2017, the Kremlin has also worked to control what Russians can see on the internet, developing gear to silence websites, block content, and even shut off the country’s online connections to the rest of the world. Officials also use non-technical means. Last year, Russia made 700,000 requests to Google items to restrict search results, according to Vasily Gastov, a visiting fellow with the USC Annenberg Center. “At present, Google agrees with about one fifth of requests,” he said.
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Euroviisuista pois potkittu Venäjä teki vastavedon​

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Venäjän valtion televisio- ja radioyhtiö ovat eronneet EBU:sta eli Euroopan yleisradiounionista. Kyseessä ovat Radio House, VGTRK sekä Channel One.

Syy eroamiseen on EBU:n päätös sulkea Venäjä ulos tämän vuoden Euroviisuista.
 
Many of the 7,000 U.S. troops activated Thursday in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will join up with multinational troops as part of the NATO Response Force’s first deployment in its history.

Those troops will head first to Germany, the Pentagon said, but could spread out as NATO determines where they’re most needed.

“We are grateful to our allies Canada and the United States for their recent commitments to deploy an additional 7,460 troops, including an armored brigade combat team, artillery units, a naval frigate, and surveillance aircraft, to support this Alliance-wide effort,” Air Force Gen. Tod Wolters, both the head of U.S. European Command and the supreme allied commander of NATO in Europe, said in a Friday statement.

All told, between 10,000 and 12,000 U.S. troops have been put on heightened alert to deploy, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told Military Times on Friday, though he could not be more specific, leaving roughly between 3,000 and 5,000 troops still stateside and in the queue for mobilization should more troops be committed to Europe.

The most recent, 7,000-soldier slice includes 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Stewart, Georgia, as well as some artillery and transport units.

They will be at least partially committed to the NATO Response Force, Kirby said, but those details are still being worked out.

“And I don’t have an exact breakdown of what is going to be going as a part of this NATO Response Force package because again, we’re still working our way through that,” Kirby said.
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Hänen mukaansa tällä hetkellä ei ole valmisteilla konkreettisia toimenpiteitä.

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