Media workshop
Elena Voloshin deconstructs the propaganda broadcast on Russian television
Audio 36:16
Elena Volochine presenting "Seen from Russia", Friday May 13, 2022 on France 24. © Screenshot France 24
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Simon Decreuze Follow
3 mins
The media workshop
receives the Franco-Russian journalist Elena Volochine, who for ten years was a correspondent in Moscow, to draw up an inventory of the Russian information landscape and better understand how people get information in Russia in 2022.
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In Russia, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, it has become almost impossible to exercise the profession of journalist.
That's why
Elena Voloshin
, after a decade of correspondence in the country, left urgently on March 4, 2022.
For the past few weeks, she has been presenting a column entitled
Seen from Russia
every Friday on France 24 in which she deconstructs the propaganda broadcast on Russian television.
At the microphone of
The Media Workshop
, Elena Voloshin recounts how she experienced the beginning of the war and why she chose to leave Russia when "
absolutely totalitarian propaganda
" was spreading in the Russian media .
Hundreds of other journalists whose media have ceased broadcasting have made the same choice, such as those of the
Novaya Gazeta
newspaper or Dojd
television
.
State media have become mouthpieces for Kremlin propaganda, says Elena Voloshin.
We see river
talk shows
devoted to what is always qualified as a “special operation” but “
there is no image of destruction caused by the Russian army in Ukraine
”.
Selected excerpts:
“
In Russia, the media have always been either for or against.
There has never really been neutral and independent journalism according to our own canons [...] that is to say that we have ethical, deontological rules, which we simply apply to the letter, we in the media in France, in any case that we try to make respect, us, at our level of journalists.
»
"
I'm in something that somewhere almost surpasses me as a journalist, because in Russia for example, to talk about journalists, they often say 'I'm an activist and I'm a journalist.'
That for us is absolutely absolutely unthinkable.
You can't be both a journalist and an activist.
Either you serve a cause, or you are a journalist and you are neutral.
»
“
In fact, it's informational warfare except that the propaganda brandishes it as an informational warfare that would be waged against Russia by the West.
And in that sense, well the Russians have no understanding at all of what a media and informational space is.
And in fact for them, as soon as they look for information, as soon as they go to read a message, it will be a message conveyed by someone who has political interests behind it.
»
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