Russian TV airs Wagner rebellion briefly, then switches to documentary on caviar

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Russian TV briefly airs Wagner armed rebellion, switches to documentary on ex-Italian PM

Several Russian TV stations briefly aired private army Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin making claims of leading an armed rebellion and its forces walking on the streets in Rostov. However, the footage was taken off air and instead, documentaries, including the life of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi were shown.

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Although Russian media generally ignore uncomfortable news and truth, during the Wagner rebellion on Saturday, Russian TV broadcast some information about what was happening on the territory of the country, but still trying to downplay the real situation and how chaos seemed to be growing in Putin's Russia. As the Wagner rebellion seemed too big an event to ignore, Russian TV stations alternated between giving some information about the situatio…

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Russian TV airs Wagner rebellion briefly, then switches to documentary on caviar

Official TV usually ignores inconvenient news – during the 1991 coup attempt it showed a tape of Swan Lake. Yevgeny Prigozhin’s action was different

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Russian state TV cuts to caviar programme instead of covering coup

Comparisons with 1991 putsch against Gorbachev when state channels broadcast Swan Lake on a loop

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Official TV usually ignores uncomfortable news: during the 1991 coup attempt, it showed an execution of Swan Lake. For Prigozhin's action it was different

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Wagner mercenaries patrolling the streets, angry locals, a documentary about caviar and Silvio Berlusconi. Such news the Russians saw on TV on Saturday. Even though some sequences about the group's rebellion were broadcast, the events were not presented to their true gravity.