Since Russia invaded Ukraine, it is illegal in Russia to spread information about the war that does not come from official Russian sources and the punishment can be up to 15 years in prison.
Therefore, three Russian journalists who can no longer work in their home country are invited to Sweden to get editorial sanctuary and be able to continue their work.
- The idea is that there will be an exile Russian editorial office in Gothenburg.
They will continue to work for their Russian exile medium and their audience will be Russian media consumers, says Ulla Sätereie, chairman of the Association of Digging Journalists.
Published via encrypted sources
In order for the news that is produced to arrive, people will use social media, encrypted messaging apps and VPN tunnels - an encrypted connection between two networks.
It is not yet decided which three journalists will travel to Sweden, but the idea is that they will be installed in September.
For two years, they will be allowed to work in exile in Gothenburg, but what happens next is still unclear.
- They have already made themselves the enemies of the state, long before they left Russia.
Right now we know that we can offer them two years of refuge, what happens next I do not know.
We have to take a position on that then, says Ulla Sätereie.
Pauses release
Independent Russian journalists have been in a difficult situation since the outbreak of the war.
At the end of March, one of Russia's most prominent independent newspapers, Novaya Gazeta, announced that it would suspend publication until the end of the war after several warnings from the state censorship authority Roskomnadzor.
Earlier that month, a Russian TV journalist got a lot of attention when she held up a sign in a live broadcast that said "No war".
She left her job and has been employed by a German newspaper since April.
In May, two journalists published some 40 Putin-critical texts on the Kremlin's site Lenta's site, which were quickly picked down by Roskomnadzor.