Telegram bans Russia Today
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Get out.
And yet a lot of their programming is still on youtube?
RT's best gig has always been its foreign reporting and not national news. That's a big hole to fill.
They had some surprisingly good and impartial reporting on Russia too. Like their short documentary/reportage on the 1993 coup/revolution/slaughter in Moscow was just excellent, and included Korzhakov in a tracksuit casually admitting/boasting he was ordered to personally execute Khasbulatov and took his gun to do it "but there were too many witnesses there" when the parliament surrendered, which otherwise would be just shocking but I guess it's just normal in Russia. So I've watched it repeatedly but can't find this particular now since everything RT and associated on YT is now banned in Poland.
I said some and that's coming from someone who should be biased against them.
The particular video began and ended with a grave of a young boy who was killed by most probably the troops loyal to the government despite being only an onlooker (machine gun fire in a street).
Also in another example, this time foreign reporting, they had an English speaking Arab correspondent doing a 360 VR tour in Homs after it was completely destroyed by Syrian government (many months later) and the reporter specifically noted how you can't hear anything here, no birds, nothing, because the city was DEAD. It really didn't feel like propaganda to show the Russian intervention on the side of Assad in a good light, not at all.
Obviously can't even find it now, but here's some other people walking around the former city in an UN video, also nothing the "haunted" silence: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zOS1va7eFWk
Their American reporting was great. They didn't really leave room for propaganda there either because most of it was extremely well cited a d didn't offer much by way of their own opinion.
I didn't realize how much I liked RT until I started looking around more for Ukraine-Russia news. Most news is just opinion pieces and editorials now.