From jammed broadcasts to a blocked website: BBC Russian's 80 years of defiance
For half a century, BBC Russian had to fend off jammers. Now its website is blocked, but millions still read it.
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"We really wanted to know what was being hidden from us."
— Natalia Rubinstein , Activist
"First of all, we started receiving sacks of wonderful letters from the [Russian] provinces."
— Natalia Rubinstein , Activist
"We went off air in Russian as usual at midnight, Moscow time. And then a few minutes later, unexpectedly for the jamming teams in the Soviet Union, we popped up again with a special programme on the Brezhnev death."
— Peter Udell , Executive
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For half a century, BBC Russian had to fend off jammers. Now its website is blocked, but millions still read it.
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