Meduza, the largest remaining Russian independent news outlet, has started a crowdfunding campaign: “Save Meduza for our Russian readers—and for yourself,” a letter from the staff reads. “We have a duty to tell the truth.”
The contributions are paying for emergency equipment and supplies such as bulletproof vests and helmets and covering Ukrainian media’s operational costs such as gas and IT,
. The coalition of media groups, which includes The Fix, Are We Europe, Genomics, and the Media Development Foundation, has seen “tremendous support” from Poland, Germany, and the Nordic countries, according to, a managing editor at The Fix.
all but outlawed as he signed a law threatening journalists with up to 15 years in prison for calling his war on Ukraine a war . Meduzathe rest of the world for help on Monday in a crowdfunding campaign, saying that they had in recent weeks lost funding from 30,000 members—“since the outbreak of this war, transferring money from Russia to Europe has been impossible”—and asking the international community to take their place.
The Kremlin has previously tried to censor Meduza, which publishes both in Russian and in English, by tagging it as a “foreign agent,” a label the site was forced to disclose on its work and that caused Meduza to lose
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