Russia has become one of the most challenging places in the world to be a journalist, where reporters face threats of intimidation, expulsion and imprisonment. BBC Panorama has followed a year in the life of the BBC’s Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg, as he tries to walk the tightrope during a time of geopolitical upheaval.
He is confronted by police, suspected spies pop up and local TV crews doorstep him – all while doing his job as a reporter. Steve also reflects on how Russia has changed in the more than 30 years he has been living there.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he hosted the country’s Eurovision Song Contest, but now he is mocked on national television, with one pundit describing him as an enemy of the state.
He went as a Russophile. I doubt he is now. He’s spent more than half his life in the shithole. He was popular there during early putler but not any more.
They did not like his Nord Ost coverage and definitely did not like his “impertinent” questioning of putler about the attempted murder of the Skripals.
Brian Whitmore believes that Nord Ost was very likely a false flag op and I think he’s right.
It was used not only to take total control of Chechnya, but also a systematic take over of all russian media.
As usual russian people accepted the official story and no one worried about the two to three hundred innocent victims of the fentanyl derivative used by the Spetsnaz, who provided no antidote to the hospitals treating the victims.