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Borderland - E4/8 - Below the Surface

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Channel: vpro world stories · 2016 · Travel & Events

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In this series Jelle Brandt Corstius explores the border countries between Russia and Europe, from Latvia to Moldavia, West and East Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. What is the picture that the Russians and their neighbours have of each other, how are the relationships between powerful Russia and the other former Soviet republics? And how do the surrounding countries treat their Russian inhabitants? A series about propaganda and identity.

Episode 4: Below the surface 

We stay in Russia, to look at the news provision, which plays a crucial role in the Ukraine conflict. Russian journalists are being killed, there are hardly any independent media, self-censorship takes place on a large scale. But then what do the Russians watch? And how are they brainwashed? Jelle Brandt Corstius dives into the world of the First Channel, the Kremlin propaganda channel. Is it a Putin mouthpiece, as critics claim? Or are we, in the West, perhaps too one-sided as well?

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Director: Alexander Oey and Jelle Brandt Corstius
English, French and Spanish subtitles by Ericsson and co-funded by the European Union.

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