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Hungary at a Crossroads: Economic Turmoil, Internal Dissent and the Rise of Péter Magyar – QUICK TAKE
2 October 2024
13 May 2020
Russia now faces a full-fledged COVID-19 crisis at home. The Russian media are diverting attention from the domestic situation and therefore is not reporting on prison riots, outbreaks and lockdowns across the country.
In our monitoring of the Russian media ecosystem, which targets both domestic and international Russian-speaking audiences, we aim at assessing how COVID-19 related Russian propaganda is evolving in the media.
Since mid-March, the situation in Russia regarding the pandemic crisis has seen dramatic changes: there are sky-rocketing numbers of COVID-19 infections, the development of local hotbeds, a health care system that is barely managing the situation and brewing social unrest.
This, of course, is not reported in the official media.