{"id":34427,"date":"2025-07-03T10:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=34427"},"modified":"2025-07-03T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:43:21","slug":"back-to-ussr-kremlin-is-talking-about-the-return-of-state-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/back-to-ussr-kremlin-is-talking-about-the-return-of-state-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to USSR: Kremlin is talking about the return of state censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the special representative of the president of the russian federation for international cultural cooperation, former minister of culture mikhail shvydkoy, has called for a return to &#8220;professional censorship.&#8221; In his view, this would be a &#8220;more honest way of regulating the creativity of cultural figures&#8221; than the current bureaucratic control, where officials themselves do not understand what they are supposed to be afraid of.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Notably, this statement was published by &#8220;rossiyskaya gazeta&#8221; (russian newspaper) \u2014 the official government newspaper. It is being actively circulated by other major propaganda platforms, indicating that shvydkoy\u2019s remarks reflect a kremlin-approved stance. Propaganda no longer tries to conceal repressive tendencies \u2014 now, the push for full-fledged, official censorship, reminiscent of the soviet era, is being voiced openly and with pride.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities benefit from exploiting nostalgia for the soviet union to reintroduce some of its worst practices, such as total control over art, thought, and freedom of speech. russia is rapidly descending into totalitarianism, increasingly tightening control under the proud banner of &#8220;soviet quality.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the special representative of the president of the russian federation for international cultural cooperation, former minister of culture mikhail shvydkoy, has called for a return to &#8220;professional censorship.&#8221; In his view, this would be a &#8220;more honest way of regulating the creativity of cultural figures&#8221; than the current bureaucratic control, where officials themselves do not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}