In just the first month of autumn, putin signed three separate decrees awarding more than 100 employees of the propaganda \u00abchannel one\u00bb \u2014 from top managers and presenters to directors and editors.<\/p>\n
The dictator honoured the propagandists \u00abfor services in the field of mass media\u00bb, but in reality, this amounts to a reward for their participation in the information war and justification of aggression against Ukraine.<\/p>\n
putin\u2019s regime has used a similar \u00abwholesale\u00bb approach to awarding propagandists before. Similar mass award ceremonies were held during the annexation of Crimea in 2014, as well as after the start of the full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n
The regularity of such awards indicates the regime\u2019s growing dependence on its propaganda apparatus amid the prolongation of the war and deepening socio-economic problems in russia.<\/p>\n
The mass awarding of state honours to \u00abchannel one\u00bb employees is a deliberate kremlin policy of buying loyalty and involving media workers in shared responsibility for war crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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