Foreign agents: the movie Russian state TV airs fear-stoking ‘investigative film’ about exiled opposition figures and journalists

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Foreign agents: the movie Russian state TV airs fear-stoking ‘investigative film’ about exiled opposition figures and journalists

On April 13, the Russian state TV network Rossiya-24 aired an “investigative film” about Russians who have been declared “foreign agents” by the Justice Ministry and are now living in exile. Using footage obtained by reporters posing as “independent journalists,” the film highlights a variety of activists, opposition politicians, and journalists, and supports its claims about the supposedly nefarious nature of their activities with commentary fro