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Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russian broadcaster RT and the Rossiya Segodnya media group, attends a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2021. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
BERLIN, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Ruptly, a Russian state-owned news agency based in Berlin, is facing a staff exodus after President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine that is part of a broader contraction of Russia’s global news empire.
Employees complained on an all-staff call that they were being prevented from describing the invasion as such, amongst other editorial objections, according to a recording of the call heard by Reuters. Russia says its military deployment in Ukraine is a “special operation” and has cautioned local media to use that terminology. read more
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