Putin’s undesirable attack on independent media

A new documentary chronicles what it was like working at one of the last bastions of independent journalism in Russia, describing the disintegrating situation in Russia as increasingly draconian regulations on free speech are enacted during the lead up to the brutal invasion of Ukraine.

Stephen Hill talked to the director Julia Loktev about her film “My Undesirable Friends, Last Air in Moscow” about RainTV, a broadcast station that was willing to speak truth to power despite the many legal obstacles put in its way.

My Undesirable Friends, Part 1: Last Air in Moscow is screening in Sydney as part of the Antenna Documentary Film Festival.

The film is screening at Dendy Newtown on Saturday Feb 7 and the following Sunday at the Randwick Ritz. For more information head to antennafestival.org