A poll by the Rosmir polling center found that only 65 percent of Russians watch Russian state television, down from 86 percent at the start of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. State TV channels in Russia have spent months broadcasting propaganda, TV presenters have threatened to eliminate any country that supports Ukraine, but the majority of viewers at home – it is not interesting
A quarter of Russians have stopped watching state-run television channels because they are bored by Vladimir Putin’s relentless pro-war propaganda, a new poll has revealed.
A survey by the independent polling center “Rusmir” found that only 65% of Russians watch Kremlin-run stations, down from 86% at the beginning of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the Moscow Times reported.
State television channels in Russian media – such as Russia 1 and NT TV have been busy for months publishing pro-war propaganda and have even threatened to annihilate with nuclear weapons any country that supports Ukraine, including Great Britain, the United States, France and Germany.
Among the prominent propagandists of state television is Vladimir Solovyov, known as ‘the voice of Putin’, who shamelessly accused Ukraine of staging atrocities to secure additional military aid from the West, and threatened European capitals with nuclear weapons. But the relentless pro-war propaganda is boring ordinary Russians who are becoming increasingly disillusioned with Putin’s war, with a quarter of viewers now switching to different channels.
Public opinion polls show that only 55% of Russians are in favor of the invasion, compared to 66% a few months ago.
The number of restaurants in Moscow is now at a five-month low and the cinema industry has warned it will collapse without government support as sanctions continue to bite. The Kremlin relies on state-run Russian television channels to spread disinformation to bolster Russia’s war in Ukraine.
On Saturday, state TV station Russia Today claimed that Russian soldiers had been “poisoned in a chemical attack in Ukraine”, raising fears that Moscow would try to justify the use of chemical weapons in the country
In June, the propagandist Solovyov shamelessly accused Ukraine of bombing a shopping mall to secure more military aid from the West. Solovyov shamelessly said that the Ukrainians ‘do the same trick’ when they need more military help – ‘they start screaming’.
But in reality, there was a Russian missile attack on a crowded mall in central Ukraine, at least 18 people were killed, and the G7 leaders called the attack a “war crime.” But Solovyov shamelessly claimed it was all a lie and Ukraine staged the bombing and killed their own citizens.
In March, Putin signed a law that imposes a prison sentence of up to 15 years for intentionally spreading “fake news” about the Russian military or Putin’s invasion.