This week, Russia announced restrictions on Telegram and WhatsApp, two messaging platforms vital to communicating with the outside world. As Russian politics expert Sam Greene tells Host Marco Werman, Russians have always found ways around censorship, but the question is where people will go to share memes and cat videos. Greene is a professor of Russian Politics at King’s College, London.
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