{"id":541929,"date":"2022-03-05T15:41:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T15:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=6cc5b73a66aeea8c4e3733a55532233d"},"modified":"2022-03-05T15:41:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T15:41:14","slug":"war-in-ukraine-putin-delivers-the-final-blow-to-russias-independent-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/05\/war-in-ukraine-putin-delivers-the-final-blow-to-russias-independent-media\/","title":{"rendered":"War in Ukraine: Putin delivers the final blow to Russia\u2019s independent media"},"content":{"rendered":"News<div class=\"field field-name-field-rsf-chapo field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\">Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Russian authorities to immediately repeal a draconian law adopted on 4 March that makes the publication of \u201cfalse\u201d or \u201cmendacious\u201d information about the Russian armed forces punishable by up to 15 years in prison. It leaves little hope for the future of the country\u2019s few remaining independent media outlets.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p>Many leading foreign media \u2013 including the BBC, CNN, Bloomberg News, ABC, CBS News and\u00a0 Canada\u2019s CBC\/Radio-Canada \u2013 have decided to temporarily suspend broadcasting or news gathering in Russia sinc<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/war-ukraine-putin-delivers-final-blow-russias-independent-media\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Russian authorities to immediately repeal a draconian law adopted on 4 March that makes the publication of \u201cfalse\u201d or \u201cmendacious\u201d information about the Russian armed forces punishable by up to 15 years &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542617,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541929\/revisions\/542617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}