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

  • Russian state-run television covered reports of Yevgeny Prigozhin's attempted coup, but downplayed potential chaos in the country.
  • While some reporters acknowledged panic buying and tension in Rostov, overall, state media sought to discredit Prigozhin and prevent additional panic.
  • RT blamed American and British intelligence for standing behind the insurrection in their coverage of the event.
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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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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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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.

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Quotidiano Nazionale broke the news in Italy on Saturday, June 24, 2023.
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