Ep. 157 Former BBC bureau chief Konstantin Eggert and what you need to know about censorship in Russia
So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
English - April 11, 2022 20:49 - 1 hour - 75.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 166 ratingsNews Government freespeech Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Konstantin Eggert, a native Muscovite, has reported on Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. He started his reporting career in Moscow in 1990. From 1998-2009, he was senior correspondent, then editor-in-chief, of the BBC Russian Service Moscow bureau. Later he worked for ExxonMobil Russia and Russian media outlets, Kommersant and TV Rain.
Now, living in Lithuania, Eggert is a vocal critic of the Putin regime and has more than a few thoughts on censorship in Russia: specifically, how it compares to Soviet censorship, the decline of independent media in the country, Russian history, and the war in Ukraine.
Eggert currently works for a German broadcaster, Deutsche Welle.
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