Hi! You are listening to the pilot episode of english version of Russian independent podcast «PolitSut» (means "Polit. Essence"). Usually we discuss three news of the week, but now there is only one left. So we continue with Special episodes with only one news to cover.

1. 0:43. Law on fakes. How will it affect Russian journalism?
2. 4:18. Blocking of Facebook* and Instagram* in Russia. What bloggers should do in new reality?

This special issue made by: Sergey Izotov (editor, experts, voice) and Dmitry Divakov (producing, editing, voice, sound). Additional thanks to experts of this episode: Alyona Avgust, Konstantin Kalachev and Anton Timchenko.
Special thanks to Viktoria Matsneva for translation.

* banned in the Russian Federation as labeled an extremist organizations