Inside Putin's Censorship War: How These YouTubers Are Fighting Back 

That's totally true. My favourite Russian singer Zemfira is now on that list too

@@user-ok9vw1zh6b Very unfortunate. Reminds me of USSR times and how composers back then were also highly restricted by the government.

This is nothing new, Britain banned Snoop Dog once.(what he said) Other countries have all kind of bans for humans don't align with their VALUES. It's not that bad is you make it sound. However I Think It is important to have a freedom to say whatever you want. That works the best for everyone. It is complicated and we need as many sides and different sources as possible to make informed decisions.✌️

A channel called "Bandsplaining" recently did a video on this

@@hmmm8085 lol, yes, cause Snoop is such an influential POLITICAL figure...

Heey Roman! Nice to see you here! Guys, subscribe to Roman, his content is lit.

I wish the West would also represent Russians who support this war, which is most of them, but it ruins a popular and false narrative of “Putin’s war”. The only reason this war was possible is because of ordinary russians, who supported Putin’s rise to power in 2000s, annexation of Crimea and Donbas in 2014, and now full-scale war in 2022. Russia commited genocide long before Putin in Chechnya, yet no one talks about it. Russians aren’t victims and never were. Ukrainians who lost their loved ones are. It makes me really disappointed as a Ukrainian

@@jshell0771 war-supporters are well-represented by the Russian government though. Their voice is heard loud and clear, their actions speak for themselves. Why giving them additional platform? We need to give platform to those who are silences and oppressed. To show that there's another Russia behind all this shit. That not every Russian supports what's going on.

the first thing i asked myself in this if they put you on that fucking list as well. hope you be good.

@@bomberdomme7308 they probably don't care about Roman. His content is in English and they probably never ever heard of him. You are a problem only if your audience is in Russia.

The problem is what that title entails. A foreign agent in espionage terms is someone who gets "dealt with." Here's hoping these people who are not afraid to speak... are not "permanently silenced."

@@sloshed-rat Yeah, I get it, by now the only journalists or RU-vidrs who are in danger are the ones who speak about Chechnya or its leader, but who knows what will be next. My point was that these "foreign agents" are getting the opposite treatment of what Putin has hoped. Instead of treating them like spies many Russians just trust them even more. This guy's failed in everything

And why there 'honourable' people decided to cancel their statuses in court? Because they are not earning enough when being foreign agents and want to earn again as much as they used to?

@@user-gl9iw1fv2hbecause they want protest through every single way they can

everything what he says, is desinformation. Starting from the beginning. I am from Russia and half of my relatives live in Ukraine. See, according to Russian law, "Foreign agents are those who lobby the interests of other states and somehow try to influence the public opinion of citizens of the Russian Federation, the political situation in the country, collect information about the military sphere and/or receive any assistance from abroad". Before a person who gets this "title", he or she is going through a process in the court. All cases of those people who got those foreign agents title are open and their story can be checked. That person never checked their cases in court so he has no right to play role bof a judge for them and moreover for Putin who represents our Russian nation. In this way this Johnny insults a big nation and moral principles. If you study the story of do called journalists you could understand why they have got their names. Nobody put them in jail. They are obliged to write in every article that they are foreign agents. That is all. Why ? Because they do not say or write truth. And this Johnny stands for those bad people who support nazism in Ukraine. See, those so called journalist never defended simple people in Donbass when Ukrainian government has been killing them from 2014 till today but when Russia started to defend Russian speaking people (actually 80% of people are Russian speaking because Ukraine was always part of Russia and was created by Russia), those "journalists" started to speak about peace. This Johnny doesn't understand politics, he doesn't know the story of the Ukrainian conflict, he doesn't know history of Russia and Ukraine. He does not know that exactly such kind of foreign agents helped to destroy Ukraine. They also desinformed simple Ukrainian people and turned them in nazists who every new day do new military crimes in their contry. Actually those journalists try to destroy Russia from within and create chaos. They try to disunite , to desinform Russian people, especially young people who are less experienced and do not know well the history. Russia has been trying many years to solve conflict in a peaceful manner. Check Minsk agreements. But Ukrainian government broke all those agreements though promised to their people to finish their war. Their peace promise was a platform to get power in Ukraine but they broke their promises given during election. Check Poroshenko and Zelen. promises during election. If you want to know what Ukrainian government do with independent Ukrainian journalists , historians, politicians, check the story of Oles Buzina, Oleg Zarev. Those people or similar were killed or jailed. Try to understand that nowadays wars are starting in internet, in TV and one should be very smart to distinguish between truth and desinformation. Johnny can't be a specialist in every sphare of life. He is not able to study everything to understand what is going on and make correct conclusion. I lived in Soviet Union , now I live in Russian federation. My grandfather was living in Ukraine. He was fighting against Hitler. And those nazis who kill today Ukrainian people burnt his house. So those Ukrainian nazis were supporting Hitler during the second world war. Check the history. So Johnny supports nazism. Try to understand. Don't be naive. Check information from both sides of conflict. Not only from one side. For your information, Russia do not fight simple Ukrainian people. Our goal is demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine. If Russia wanted to start a real war, this Ukraine was destroyed in the first one two days of war. Remember how USA destroyed Yugoslavia. We do not fight in such way. Because Ukrainian people are actually Russian people. We are all relatives. So why should we kill our relitives? If you check the story of conflict, you will find out that Crimea, and Donbass region joined Russia in their own will and they always voted for pro Russian government in Ukraine. But when real president was illegally removed from his post, removed not by election but by force, by weapons they did not accept those bandits in 2014. That is why illegal Ukraine government ( = killers ) sent solders to suppress citizens all over the Ukraine who protested against illegal government.

Glad you got out. Hope some time soon your homeland has freedom and not the US invading you kind like we have Iraq. Persian culture is so rich and beautiful and every Persian I've met has been very kind and generous.

@@nedisahonkey Who the hell said they got out? Are you illiterate or literally illiterate?

You should hear propaganda the CIA spreads through US media. Talk about the Matrix. Unreal.

situation in Iran is much worse(

What kind of internet access is in Iran? Is it like china and the great firewall?

Indeed. Your word really hit me!!

Sounds like USA )

@@SNEZNA9 yes of course, "Irina"

@@szuperrosszarcu yes that’s my name )

Hopefully it doesn’t hit harder than your ability to fully open your eyes. I have Down’s syndrome, I understand, we are in the same boat.

I've been hearing a lot about your upcoming elections. Hoping for a democratic outcome for Turkey. There is a great deal at stake for your people. Also, my deepest condolences for the tragedy unfolding from the earthquake. I hope your loved ones are safe. ❤️ from 🇺🇸

@@karyon1007 thanks for all your good wishes much appreciated

Do you think you have any chance of getting rid of Erdogan?

Good luck in May.

Same my friend, best wishes from India.

Those who are cut off from their savings can always get back to russia to fight for the freedom!

@@dmytrosmyrnov maybe, but better believe they will be in the gulag . silenced. then again you could be a troll, I don't know, with the War... or "special operation"

@@PrograError I'm just trying to say that it's their own fault that they are gifted their country to putins mafia. And they are responsible for all putins actions as well as returning country to it's people.

@@dmytrosmyrnov what about different teenagers or who lives in the small towns? It's very easy to blame all of them and don't get into details

@@alexfokin4182 It's very easy to make excuses for not doing anything. What is really difficult is to fight for your rights and freedom. We have already given you many examples of how to do it. Try it at least once.

Hey! I'm in the same situation, I've had a lot of arguments with my family about the war, but eventually gave up to keep my sanity

@@Mike-fn8dj What do they say? I am so curious....it's a very different part of the world than mine, and I have few people to whom I could ask questions.

Parents understand what is really happening, but she does not. Young people did not care what was happening, they saw when the country was already drawn into the conflict. Let them leave, the main thing is not to return with their distorted mind. If they do not like the country that gave them free education, medicine, let them look for another country, as they consider without "sin". The fools left, the society inside became more united.

@@RuSky_Y2B Talk about a solid brain washing. I wonder if you're even able to think for yourself anymore.

​@@RuSky_Y2B agreed

Yeah because he used tucker as an example and not the whole msm on Brandon. I love his no bias opinion

the guy still believes Russia was involved in fixing the US elections, need I say more.

Admirable

@@petecamper just about every major player with the ability to do so tampers with elections. The dems may have blown it out of proportion but it would be naive to think Russia had nothing to do with it.

@@theguy192 he litterally said he was biased. You make no sense.

it's hard reporting in USA u might be killed

Are you talking about USA?

@@max-cs9ko uhh no?

@@max-cs9ko You typically don't get poisoned when you speak against the U.S government. I'll agree that there are many paralells with the U.S and Russia, especially where corruption is concerned, but it doesn't work out to he even close.

@@max-cs9ko im gonna level with you, americans take a lot of their freedoms for granted. You guys dont know just how easy it is for you

Nastya, “Putin and his government” were chosen by Russians. Ukrainians are victims not of Putin and his regime, but of Russians as a whole, since they are the ones who go to war and commit war crimes. There’s no such thing as Putin’s war

@badofi can you put some examples on what exactly you mean?

@badofi None of what you listed justifies Putin's treatment of its own citizens and specifically journalists.

Yo, you can´t pull out NOW?, we are in historic events that will change the world. The more you contribute the likely it is that you are part of that historic event despite the difficulties. Just think about it.

The U.S. Congress is funding an organization called Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), whose professed purpose, according to its website, is to “counter Russian disinformation.” But its real purpose may be to create the equivalent of a “fatwah list” of alleged traitors whom patriotic Americans and/or Ukrainians will feel they have a green light to assassinate.

Actually VLOGGERS and RU-vidrs. The journalists of today are becoming more biased.

I like you Johnny Harris but this video is full of shit. NATO kept pushing near Russia and was loading up weapons near the border even when they agreed not to. Putin said there will be consequences but they thought he was bluffing so they kept going… the invasion of Ukraine was the result of western countries breaking the agreement and putin is doing it for his national security. And also why tf are you complaining about Putin not allowing LGBT to be taught to young Russian kids? You guys are absolutely sick and there’s something wrong with you. Please fix yourselves.

You don't need much bravery to criticize your own country from abroad and by western money.

@@aresnir2725 would people really risk their life just for money? what would they use their money for if they are dead? look at Navalny and all opposition that is speaking against Putin? either dead, tortured, or in gulag. do you think they would prefer western money over their lives? obviously they are fighting a much bigger fight that is worth risking their lives and that is to open the minds of russian people that is still blinded by Russian media.

@@rexroiyal Yes, there is risk of doing active opposition politics inside Russia, but there are hundreds of anti-Putin bloggers on RU-vid, no one at ny risk, because many of them live abroad.

I left russia but this is realistic. The tv is bullshit

Do you have to register a foreign agent for writing this comment? I'm asking seriously. Do you have guidelines for participating in western media commentary?

@@charismahornum-fries691 nah, not even close. As long as you’re not a well-known person, you won’t get the foreign agent status. The comment above is rather tame even by the draconian authoritarian standards of Putin’s regime. However, the scary thing is you can actually end up in prison for any type of dissent or sympathy towards the West/Ukraine. One guy made a post in social media about dreaming of meeting Zelensky in his sleep and got fined for that narrowly escaping jail time. Hell, you can go to prison for putting a like under the wrong kind of post. So, foreign agent = famous person or a journalist who is showing dissent. If it’s a normal person, they usually get fined or jailed for “disparaging/slandering the army”, which is a law they came up with just to fight anyone who opposes the war or government

@@charismahornum-fries691 not yet, only if you are popular..

​@@charismahornum-fries691 No, for now there is no punishment for commenting western media or any content consuming. I doubt our gov't has instruments to check what you do on YT. At least as long as you stay anonymous. But they "work" on Russian social media, like VK. A "wrong" comment or even a like for one can cost you freedom.

everything what he says, is desinformation. Starting from the beginning. I am from Russia and half of my relatives live in Ukraine. See, according to Russian law, "Foreign agents are those who lobby the interests of other states and somehow try to influence the public opinion of citizens of the Russian Federation, the political situation in the country, collect information about the military sphere and/or receive any assistance from abroad". Before a person who gets this "title", he or she is going through a process in the court. All cases of those people who got those foreign agents title are open and their story can be checked. That person never checked their cases in court so he has no right to play role bof a judge for them and moreover for Putin who represents our Russian nation. In this way this Johnny insults a big nation and moral principles. If you study the story of do called journalists you could understand why they have got their names. Nobody put them in jail. They are obliged to write in every article that they are foreign agents. That is all. Why ? Because they do not say or write truth. And this Johnny stands for those bad people who support nazism in Ukraine. See, those so called journalist never defended simple people in Donbass when Ukrainian government has been killing them from 2014 till today but when Russia started to defend Russian speaking people (actually 80% of people are Russian speaking because Ukraine was always part of Russia and was created by Russia), those "journalists" started to speak about peace. This Johnny doesn't understand politics, he doesn't know the story of the Ukrainian conflict, he doesn't know history of Russia and Ukraine. He does not know that exactly such kind of foreign agents helped to destroy Ukraine. They also desinformed simple Ukrainian people and turned them in nazists who every new day do new military crimes in their contry. Actually those journalists try to destroy Russia from within and create chaos. They try to disunite , to desinform Russian people, especially young people who are less experienced and do not know well the history. Russia has been trying many years to solve conflict in a peaceful manner. Check Minsk agreements. But Ukrainian government broke all those agreements though promised to their people to finish their war. Their peace promise was a platform to get power in Ukraine but they broke their promises given during election. Check Poroshenko and Zelen. promises during election. If you want to know what Ukrainian government do with independent Ukrainian journalists , historians, politicians, check the story of Oles Buzina, Oleg Zarev. Those people or similar were killed or jailed. Try to understand that nowadays wars are starting in internet, in TV and one should be very smart to distinguish between truth and desinformation. Johnny can't be a specialist in every sphare of life. He is not able to study everything to understand what is going on and make correct conclusion. I lived in Soviet Union , now I live in Russian federation. My grandfather was living in Ukraine. He was fighting against Hitler. And those nazis who kill today Ukrainian people burnt his house. So those Ukrainian nazis were supporting Hitler during the second world war. Check the history. So Johnny supports nazism. Try to understand. Don't be naive. Check information from both sides of conflict. Not only from one side. For your information, Russia do not fight simple Ukrainian people. Our goal is demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine. If Russia wanted to start a real war, this Ukraine was destroyed in the first one two days of war. Remember how USA destroyed Yugoslavia. We do not fight in such way. Because Ukrainian people are actually Russian people. We are all relatives. So why should we kill our relitives? If you check the story of conflict, you will find out that Crimea, and Donbass region joined Russia in their own will and they always voted for pro Russian government in Ukraine. But when real president was illegally removed from his post, removed not by election but by force, by weapons they did not accept those bandits in 2014. That is why illegal Ukraine government ( = killers ) sent solders to suppress citizens all over the Ukraine who protested against illegal government.

I think Russia should try the Western way, *“Silence them Silently”*

@@just-some-muslim ?

@@akalion213 Just like how they silenced the 2001 Iraq war in Media.

@@akalion213 One word, *“Julian Assange”* Wait another word, *“Edward Snowden”*

@@just-some-muslim That's two words

The next best step from them is to limit access or fragment/segregation user to a “approve” domains. Think N.Korea isolated internet that is separate from the greater internet.

Yep, you almost have to censor it from the ground up like in China

i think the great firewall of china trumps them all and is the dream of many of these authoritarian regimes.

Not for america lmfao, they tell you its free speech and then control the narrative.

@@thommyneter168 but can't you penetrate it? Like the internet has to many layers to to keep account of effectievly not?

As a Russian, all he said was true. Try living under a dictatorship where the government tries to brainwash you into a crazy nationalistic ideology, see how you like it

As a Russian, all he said was bullshit

Question: did your study of English ever mark you as suspiciously foreign in Russia? (We already knew being a musician made you suspicious, musicians are suspicious in every language)

@@hieronymusbutts7349 I wouldn't say so, my primary cause for concern for my safety and well-being was based primarily on me being young and, well, male. Being an English teacher in Russia is still a job like any other. You are infinitely more likely to face pressure for your political views than for your line of work.

So you knew you wanted to leave in 2009, but flow abroad only when the draft started? Cool story bro

@@AlexPigin I understand. Thank you for clarifying. What part of Russia did you live in before leaving, if I may ask? I've been trying to study Russian culture and my two main sources are a) other confused westerners trying to look into Russia and b) Russian expats such as yourself-so your answer is greatly appreciated. Thank you. :)

@@lmonk9705 you do understand there is a big difference between wanting to live abroad and carefully working your way towards relocating and having to considerably speed up your efforts under circumstances that might make it impossible for you to do so if you stay put for any longer, right?

This list will help your countrymen obtain political asylum in other countries.

You forget to put u r foreign agent

@@sureshkrishna8515 bruhh 😭😭

Ruzzians kill Ukrainians, bomber Ukrainian cities and still says that it's tragedy for ruzzia. All of ruzzians are so delusional

@@sureshkrishna8515 well, I'm a kind of, actually. They consider me being under the influence - technically, it's the same.

It doesn't happen enough. The so-called "independent" journalists in US are just contrarians and useful idiots parroting divisive anti-US and pro-russia narratives. From leftists like Jimmy Dore to liberals like Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi to right wing populists like Tucker Carlson. A bunch of libertarians are pro-russia. Tankies are pro-russia. Half of republicans believe in crazy conspiracies about globo-homos waging war against traditional christian values with russia (70%+ divorce rate, highest abortion and HIV rate in Europe, 17% church attendance) and putin being their last ally because putin said something against giving hormones to trans kids (yep that's all it took, now everything he says is like a gospel). There's free speech and there's clever propaganda fine tuned for the information age which aims to overwhelm people with multiple fake narratives mixed with facts so that people either give up on trying to figure out what's happening due to limited attention span or narrative fallacy kicks in and conspiracies are born.

US media is controlled by dual citizens at the behest of foreign interests. The US media is still lying about 911... So, there's that...! EDIT - the censorship on YT is off the charts.

don't you mean ESPECIALLY HERE? you have to be REALLY naive to think USA isn't the most propagandized and lied to population on the planet.

Most conservative journalists tends to be shadow banned. There's no denial to that

foreign agent law started as American copy paste

Gracias por esto comentario, Miguel. Спасибо, что вы с нами.

Thanks for mentioning Ilya Yashin. Even in jail he continues to stay active and speak up about what he believes in through the social media

I like you Johnny Harris but this video is full of shit. NATO kept pushing near Russia and was loading up weapons near the border even when they agreed not to. Putin said there will be consequences but they thought he was bluffing so they kept going… the invasion of Ukraine was the result of western countries breaking the agreement and putin is doing it for his national security. And also why tf are you complaining about Putin not allowing LGBT to be taught to young Russian kids? You guys are absolutely sick and there’s something wrong with you. Please fix yourselves.

OMG! A Spaniard who talks (and writes) in English!! And very articulated! :P

Мое почтение❤

"this comment was brought to you by a foreign agent"

@@gewnurbright now anyone in Russia can be called a foreign agent by our government, so yeah, you are right

I am American and against this war and Biden 's regime.. Biden DESTROYS U.S!!

You are a not intelligent person who hates Putin but ignores the issue of American imperialism. Noam Chomsky needs to sit down with you for about 10 hours and explain how the world really works.

no you are not, stop lying. Putin will win

@Fiamo Scarlette You want proof that the Ukrainian government is just a bunch of Nazis?

Yes, we are all round idiots here in Russia and only a bunch of "special" people led by Navalny is just a ray of light among the stupid and barbarians. Turn on your head and finally realize that in Europe there is exactly the same propaganda through the media as in Russia, only with the opposite message. And I'll tell you a little secret, Navalny and his company did not distinguish themselves with anything good, except to shout "all politicians in Russia are bad, let's make a revolution." Any adult understands that the revolution does not end with anything good, but only with suffering and poverty.

Lol if you think you're getting the full picture in the Western media you're sorely mistaken. The Russians aren't the only ones with a narrative and an agenda to push. Like they say, fish don't know they're in water.

@Fiamo Scarlette Why would an ordinary Russian person look for alternative news on RU-vid if he doesn't know that the news on TV is lying to him? Has that ever occurred to you? And even if someone starts to doubt, why should they start believing those who are branded as "foreign agents"? And another problem that everyone forgets about RU-vid is its algorithms: If I had never been interested in politics or if I had supported Putin, RU-vid would never have offered me videos with oppositional political content. I wouldn't even know it existed.

@@SokolRock how do you know who is lying to you? you blame Russia media 'cause they "spread lies" but you believe your media because they told you that telling you true? is that how its work?

That's a quality tag nowdays ;)

Niki, it was amazing to me how Roman and you tried to comply with laws and rules when those laws and rules stopped protecting you even if you complied. It felt...naive and yet I hoped it would work out for you. I hope there again will be room for naivety. People have a right to be surprised about being punched in the streets of St Petersburg just for speaking English. Some day that kind of surprise will again be justified. People need to understand how brave that was. How brave Natasha was for filming herself defacing Z in broad daylight. Z0ZZ was a bad year. I am not sure what lesson we should learn of it.

hello, niki. I hope you are safe and healthy.

@@Nikolaievich9837 Nah. Coating a nugget of shit conspiratorial thinking in a coat of truth still makes it shit. While it is true that there are now multiple centres to counter Russian propaganda and psy ops, those are not a hit list. And you misusing a scary mUslIm sounding name for the concept only works on people who already are drinking that shit from a 12 gauge hose. Try your craft on somebody who does not smell the stank than came from your mouth.

@@bjorn-falkoandreas9472 you wanna dig their graves and then claim its " Ruzzian conspiratorial thinking" to there faces

But it's totally different, and if you want, you can try to compare them or find someone who did it

Damn Mr Spherical is also here 😂

@@cringe_lord5762 always has been I mean he covers current global situation in his videos

You CAN NOT take freedom and democracy for granted, they need to be carefully maintained.

hey MrSpherical, you should prepare for the Redditors who will reply to you while weaponizing logical fallacies. they do not have an arguement and are most of them are hardcore Redditors who just moved to RU-vid to infect it with their negativity.

Bruh MrSpherical, unexpected for sure

Nigga

Are you Russian?

Sorry but what is that heart with US Dollar under your name?

It's their donation to the channel

He’s far from a journalist

depending what country you live and born in,. you are and have the right to be a journalist.

I feel like Johny is far from being a "good" journalist, he fits being a bad one though. I found in his arguments is that he always says "he is trying not to look through Western lenses" and he instead asks "normal" Russians their opinion. The main problem is that these Russians who told their opinion are liberals, because obviously they're subscribers of Johnny's channel. It's like asking the left-leaning fan base on what they think about right wingers and etc. Also, his videos making style becomes too annoying at this point, he is trying to copy a "VICE" style with their "intimate" sounds and cherry picked videos, just stop it already....

propagandist is what you meant

New Zealand: “me too”

Actually we got snow here recently in NSW so it's not even that wrong, unfortunately (thanks, climate change)

Samo shit ! Johnny you are king ! (Y)

You underestimate how many supporters he still has

To do this they should stop complaining on the internet and actually do something. So you're definitely right about - "not in this universe"

With the combined pressure of war and economic hardship I hope we have another february 1917 revolution

@@martabakcoding7784 yeah, "hopes and wishes" is a famous weapon of russian opposition. Extremely powerful in putting social consciousness into sleep.

@@dmytrosmyrnov cool

This War will be over. And we will take our country back. Save yourself. We need in you. That is the task for us to grave deadmen, restore all the damage and build a new Russia. Free and peaceful.

Hello 👋 Dear. How are you doing? Hope you are fine. I'm Mark Clifford and am from Denver Colorado, where are you from? You seem like a real country girl

@@markclifford1857 no, I am not.

@@markclifford1857 just stop

Наши воины сражаются против нацисткой заразы и коллективного колониального запада, но проигрывают в информационной войне. Поэтому вы на стороне врага. Но пройдет время и правда дойдет и до вас. Сравните что делают наши доблестные войска и как аккуратны и заботливы к гражданским потерям, видя в простых украинцах своих родных, а как США разбомбило Ирак и применяла напреимер боеприспасы с обедненным ураном, как сотни тысяч детей только погибли в Ираке в следсиве действий армии США и кстати войсковых частей Украины, которые зачем-то соучаствовали в этом военном преступлении. Просто сравните хоть немного и поймите с каким жестоким врагом мы сражаемся. Очень жаль что украинская верхушка продалась западу и захотела воевать и умирать за них и действительно виновна в данном конфликте отвернув мирные пути решения этого вопроса, но время расставит все по своим местам.

Great journalism ? Johnny is great lier.

@@satvata It was sarcasm

@@alext7762 I understand

@@alext7762 I am from Russia and I can proof that everything that Johnny says about Russian people and so called journalists is absolutely lie.

U.S and NATO have been much worse for so many years, Putin is like an angel compared to the west no doubt, everything people say he does or is doing you can guarantee U.S / NATO have no doubt exceeded beyond what Putin has done

So why you're not useful?

@@user-cu4lv4jd1p Your saying I'm not useful ? 🤣

The U.S. Congress is funding an organization called Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), whose professed purpose, according to its website, is to “counter Russian disinformation.” But its real purpose may be to create the equivalent of a “fatwah list” of alleged traitors whom patriotic Americans and/or Ukrainians will feel they have a green light to assassinate.

You bow down before a lier. I m from Russia and half if my relatives live in Ukraine. So I can say that everything what Johnny said is absolutely lie. Don't let your brain to be washed by superficial bloggers who are not politicians who have no understanding about what is going on in Ukraine. It's very pitty that you are lacking critical thinking ability.

everything what he says, is desinformation. Starting from the beginning. I am from Russia and half of my relatives live in Ukraine. See, according to Russian law, "Foreign agents are those who lobby the interests of other states and somehow try to influence the public opinion of citizens of the Russian Federation, the political situation in the country, collect information about the military sphere and/or receive any assistance from abroad". Before a person who gets this "title", he or she is going through a process in the court. All cases of those people who got those foreign agents title are open and their story can be checked. That person never checked their cases in court so he has no right to play role bof a judge for them and moreover for Putin who represents our Russian nation. In this way this Johnny insults a big nation and moral principles. If you study the story of do called journalists you could understand why they have got their names. Nobody put them in jail. They are obliged to write in every article that they are foreign agents. That is all. Why ? Because they do not say or write truth. And this Johnny stands for those bad people who support nazism in Ukraine. See, those so called journalist never defended simple people in Donbass when Ukrainian government has been killing them from 2014 till today but when Russia started to defend Russian speaking people (actually 80% of people are Russian speaking because Ukraine was always part of Russia and was created by Russia), those "journalists" started to speak about peace. This Johnny doesn't understand politics, he doesn't know the story of the Ukrainian conflict, he doesn't know history of Russia and Ukraine. He does not know that exactly such kind of foreign agents helped to destroy Ukraine. They also desinformed simple Ukrainian people and turned them in nazists who every new day do new military crimes in their contry. Actually those journalists try to destroy Russia from within and create chaos. They try to disunite , to desinform Russian people, especially young people who are less experienced and do not know well the history. Russia has been trying many years to solve conflict in a peaceful manner. Check Minsk agreements. But Ukrainian government broke all those agreements though promised to their people to finish their war. Their peace promise was a platform to get power in Ukraine but they broke their promises given during election. Check Poroshenko and Zelen. promises during election. If you want to know what Ukrainian government do with independent Ukrainian journalists , historians, politicians, check the story of Oles Buzina, Oleg Zarev. Those people or similar were killed or jailed. Try to understand that nowadays wars are starting in internet, in TV and one should be very smart to distinguish between truth and desinformation. Johnny can't be a specialist in every sphare of life. He is not able to study everything to understand what is going on and make correct conclusion. I lived in Soviet Union , now I live in Russian federation. My grandfather was living in Ukraine. He was fighting against Hitler. And those nazis who kill today Ukrainian people burnt his house. So those Ukrainian nazis were supporting Hitler during the second world war. Check the history. So Johnny supports nazism. Try to understand. Don't be naive. Check information from both sides of conflict. Not only from one side. For your information, Russia do not fight simple Ukrainian people. Our goal is demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine. If Russia wanted to start a real war, this Ukraine was destroyed in the first one two days of war. Remember how USA destroyed Yugoslavia. We do not fight in such way. Because Ukrainian people are actually Russian people. We are all relatives. So why should we kill our relitives? If you check the story of conflict, you will find out that Crimea, and Donbass region joined Russia in their own will and they always voted for pro Russian government in Ukraine. But when real president was illegally removed from his post, removed not by election but by force, by weapons they did not accept those bandits in 2014. That is why illegal Ukraine government ( = killers ) sent solders to suppress citizens all over the Ukraine who protested against illegal government.

Thanks for sharing

thanks, that proves the point of Medvedev being only a puppet.

Thank you for your comment, i was writing the similar one. I was very surprised to hear how Johny fell for this well known pieace of russian propaganda.

The Russian Constitution stipulates that no person can hold more than two consecutive terms as President, but since it's not a lifetime ban like the US, Putin can simply take a 1-4 year break as official head of state without losing the strings of power. With the current situation, he can simply "retire" from Russian politics (no, not really), let someone else take the title of President (a.k.a. Emperor Meiji), and pull the strings from the shadows (dick move, but the idiots will totally buy this and think Putin's retiring for realz).

Are you kidding. Could not be lying now that he's "out of politics" that right there shows you how misguided and naïve you are. He was an excellent orator and very prolific liar most of his political life. Speeches today confirm lying has not left his repertoire of tricks.

A better way to look at it is "how do you know what you think you know, and why do you think you *know* it?" Did you learn from a reliable source? Is it verifiable? It's a good way to look at life in general tbh.

@@Zyo117 Reliable and verifiable sources are very important

Very important point, thank you!

Exactly, this idea of "nothing is true anyway, everything is a scam" is the most popular cop-out for young Russians to ignore everything. The hardest part is that it has a grain of truth, so its hard to fault that perspective entirely

It’s called firehosing !

It's not surprising taking into consideration gays change partners every day, so generally know quite a lot of people.

#RussiaIsATerroristState

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Я же наоборот разочаровался в авторе. Делает интересные научпопулярные видео. Но здесь однобокий взгяд представлен. Показаны только те блогеры которые не поддежали Россию и уехали, другая же половина совершенно не представлена в видео. В этом ролике явно намеренно создается впечатление, что противоположное мнение есть только у Russia Today и официальных каналов, а все же кто может свободно говорить на ютубе занимают антироссийскую позицию. И это становится действительно так, потому что ютуб то фактически забанил самых популярных прорусских ютуберов даже с миллионами подписчиков. Свобода слова на ютубе? Смешно. Сейчас на ютубе разрешена только антироссийская позиция. Так что это не что иное, как та же цензура в угоду западному антироссийскому нарративу. Очень жаль, но объективностью в видео не пахнет, однобокий взгляд с выборкой нужных фактов, о чем автор упомянул... сделал вид что он то не такой, однако сделал в точности так же.

@@hakooplayplay3212 Кто ебать у вас популярный? Стас ай как узко, который просто опускается в оскорбления уровня 14 летнего пацана, когда ему просто нечего ответить? Подоляка, который ещё год назад Харьков три раза взял? Или ты о постоянной своре которая появляется у соловья? И автор даже в этом видео прям явно и специально указал что нарратив у него полюбому будет один. И Вы же явно видео автора раньше не смотрели? У него как минимум три видео про эту войну, и его позиция там чётко обозначена. В чём Вы огорчились? Он всегда был такого мнения. Ну а если вас так пугает руссофобский ютуб. Попрошу вас перестать лицемерить и удалится отсюда. У вас есть замечательная православная альтернатива.

@@zakirdinlamiev6030 Да я не постоянно смотрю этот канал, но помню его ведео про Навального, про Катар и футбольный скандал и другие вроде про подводные лодки и т.п. Казалось человек умеет работать с источниками.

exactly my thought. how a blatant explicit lie can be an alternative source of truth?

Ye, this video is heavily misinformed at best and utter bullshit and borderline Russian propaganda at worst

@@alexfomin1207 it's not. It's just Johnny Harris being insanely wrong as usual

@@notapokemontrainer800 Look very carefully at the credits for this video.

Ну да,ну да..

Вот не надо, чувак! Сам факт того, что ты знаешь английский, уже говорит о твоих прозападных наклонностях. На журналистика тоже заангажирована.

@@MrParlam Ты тупой я сам билинг я родился с двумя языками и что I know English and half of my family are british и что

@@thealexunion7061 Вот ты и вскрылся. Думаешь, что твой бритиш рут и билингво даёт право возвышаться? Я квадролингва и Halbdeutscher. Твоя Британия утонет в пакистанцах, индусах и прочих мусульманах. А ваш мэйнстрим об этом учтиво и намеренно замалчивает.

@@MrParlam Я не БрИТиШь рут я здесь живу (Ливерпуле )и горжусь своей странной и горжусь России великая страна но культурно и исторически а люди в ней быдло

@@thealexunion7061 если русским хватит когда нибудь ума создать свой ФРС, то быдла станет меньше. Вот и вся математика

The only question remains - why russians who are fled from their beloved country are still silenced? Where are massive anti-war protests and as well as actions to give Ukraine more weapons? Nothing like this happening because most of the russians fled not because of politics but because afraid of being mobilised. In other words russians are not silenced by force but because they are choose to be silenced.

Russia uses RU-vid too, they have troll factories, and buy cheap adds in India to fill RU-vid trends with videos, so opposition doesn't get into trends

@@homematvej You're right, russian government uses YT as a platform too. I'm just saying that many people found themselves on different sides, and YT kinda represents the side opposite to the TV, as it's the only open platform left for opposition. And it is a platform that provides different opinions as opposed to Russian TV which spreads only one point of view.

Almost looks like the west who praises "free speech" but has banned all media going against their narrative of "we must destroy Ruzzia" lol

@@argon8908 take your 15 rubles per comment, and get the hell out of here please

пора выходить из дуализма. мир не черно-белый. желающий ненавидеть всегда найдет повод. взять готовую точку зрения и сделать её своей истинной или примкнуть к толпе - всегда легче, чем разбираться, думать, чувствовать, понимать, слышать, видеть разные точки зрения. срединный путь - вот где веками находят мудрость.

Do you support wester paedophilia?

well you're not under shelling and not get killed like Ukrainian civilians, so don't get me wrong, but complaines about how uncomfortable now in Russia is exaggerated especially when looking at how lots russians justifying this war

​@@syntheticliberty3844 You don't have to be under shelling to be conscious about your rights, do you? It's not about "comfort", as you might guess. This whole video is about Russians who are against the war. It also explains the nature of the support of those who do.

@@syntheticliberty3844and how do you see “support and justification of war”? Polls, which are set up and paid by Kremlin? Social networks, which are being either banned or controlled? People not protesting because they are literally not ready to pay fines twice their wage and a possibility of being sent to prison to 15 years and maybe even sent to war? You base your opinion on nothing. You only see crazy Z-Nazis ONLY because they are the only ones that won't get punished for their opinion. They won't get fined/sent to prison and they can express their “opinions” without any fears.

But what about the Ukrainian people? Their the ones being affected by your government, politicians, and so called russian liberals

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Either you're in delusion or another CIA psyop bot. *“West doens't have any Ally, only Interest”*

I hope u are sent to front lines with ak

Praying for your people, the death of your soldiers is unjust, blood is on Putins hands

"Большой брат следит за тобой"

Here in France, we have a far-right billionnaire who started using the Murdoch-playbook, and transformed a respected news channel into Fox-News-like garbage We already had right-leaning channels but at least, the facts were still true

any content questioning the government certified narrative about a certain disease that appeared a pair of years ago and the inoculation that supposedly was safe and effective in stopping its spread

Oh, this is the recent train derailment incident, resulting in a spill. Guess I'll read up on it now.

This has been covered by all major news organisations. Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC etc have all covered it. This is nothing like Russia.

The U.S. Congress is funding an organization called Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), whose professed purpose, according to its website, is to “counter Russian disinformation.” But its real purpose may be to create the equivalent of a “fatwah list” of alleged traitors whom patriotic Americans and/or Ukrainians will feel they have a green light to assassinate.

No one is innocent. никто не невиновен. но это однобоко.

@@andyc9902 Думаешь, я не знаю?

Yes, that’s so weird. Как будто до нас кому-то есть дело, это удивляет)

he calls himself "zoomeers" now

@@eruno_ Really? I haven't seen his latest videos yet so, apparently, I just missed this)

Thoughts on 'Real journalist' youtube channel ?

@@praddumnvats6759 unfortunately didn't have a chance to watch. Will check when have time, thank you!

@@user-tr7vv2gw6x ya do check him out...he is an unbiased gem.

Look at robot tech 🤖👀 time traveler are you mean angry go to yourself fight you Rip red blood crazy Vladimir Putin👊😡🤬

Great seeing you here! I watch your podcasts/interviews constantly and I am a huge fan of your work Hope you and your family live a great new life in Cyprus

I don't know what to say, God bless and Godspeed. Bless the peaceful Russians and I hope for the best for your country

Where did you move to?

@@vladimirfyodorov to Vietnam

@@MishShish Wow, interesting. Why did you choose Vietnam? Or was there no other choices?

@@vladimirfyodorov there was. But my finances didn’t allowed me to move to Europe or other, more developed and democratic countries. Here I feel safe at least because it’s far enough and local government seems like doesn’t care much about war. It’s much cheaper to live here than in any other country, I believe. But also Russian bank cards are working here…

@@MishShish Cool. Thank you for the information.

The U.S. Congress is funding an organization called Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), whose professed purpose, according to its website, is to “counter Russian disinformation.” But its real purpose may be to create the equivalent of a “fatwah list” of alleged traitors whom patriotic Americans and/or Ukrainians will feel they have a green light to assassinate.

Это другое...

Ironically you are consuming very nicely lie that Johnny is offering you.

As Russian can say, this video was not so useful for Russian. I felt like a recap watching it. Mostly he told that there is already people who is doing it in Russia like Yuri Dud. And I think every young man who knows how to use internet kinda already know those personas, it is way worse with other generations of people, they just rejecting this kind of information.

@@ShanyaTC I was more talking about the fact he confronts both sides of the propaganda spectrum and shows both sides can do it and to use due diligence rather than just saying Russia bad! because that will kill any possible dialogue before it begins if you’re a brainwashed russian citizen.

the amount of Russian people who watch Johnny Harris but don't know any of the independent Russian RU-vidrs that are covering both war and propaganda extensively is incredibly small

В Яндекс.Браузере есть автоматический переводчик видео на русский язык. Не благодарите)

everything what he says, is desinformation. Starting from the beginning. I am from Russia and half of my relatives live in Ukraine. See, according to Russian law, "Foreign agents are those who lobby the interests of other states and somehow try to influence the public opinion of citizens of the Russian Federation, the political situation in the country, collect information about the military sphere and/or receive any assistance from abroad". Before a person who gets this "title", he or she is going through a process in the court. All cases of those people who got those foreign agents title are open and their story can be checked. That person never checked their cases in court so he has no right to play role bof a judge for them and moreover for Putin who represents our Russian nation. In this way this Johnny insults a big nation and moral principles. If you study the story of do called journalists you could understand why they have got their names. Nobody put them in jail. They are obliged to write in every article that they are foreign agents. That is all. Why ? Because they do not say or write truth. And this Johnny stands for those bad people who support nazism in Ukraine. See, those so called journalist never defended simple people in Donbass when Ukrainian government has been killing them from 2014 till today but when Russia started to defend Russian speaking people (actually 80% of people are Russian speaking because Ukraine was always part of Russia and was created by Russia), those "journalists" started to speak about peace. This Johnny doesn't understand politics, he doesn't know the story of the Ukrainian conflict, he doesn't know history of Russia and Ukraine. He does not know that exactly such kind of foreign agents helped to destroy Ukraine. They also desinformed simple Ukrainian people and turned them in nazists who every new day do new military crimes in their contry. Actually those journalists try to destroy Russia from within and create chaos. They try to disunite , to desinform Russian people, especially young people who are less experienced and do not know well the history. Russia has been trying many years to solve conflict in a peaceful manner. Check Minsk agreements. But Ukrainian government broke all those agreements though promised to their people to finish their war. Their peace promise was a platform to get power in Ukraine but they broke their promises given during election. Check Poroshenko and Zelen. promises during election. If you want to know what Ukrainian government do with independent Ukrainian journalists , historians, politicians, check the story of Oles Buzina, Oleg Zarev. Those people or similar were killed or jailed. Try to understand that nowadays wars are starting in internet, in TV and one should be very smart to distinguish between truth and desinformation. Johnny can't be a specialist in every sphare of life. He is not able to study everything to understand what is going on and make correct conclusion. I lived in Soviet Union , now I live in Russian federation. My grandfather was living in Ukraine. He was fighting against Hitler. And those nazis who kill today Ukrainian people burnt his house. So those Ukrainian nazis were supporting Hitler during the second world war. Check the history. So Johnny supports nazism. Try to understand. Don't be naive. Check information from both sides of conflict. Not only from one side. For your information, Russia do not fight simple Ukrainian people. Our goal is demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine. If Russia wanted to start a real war, this Ukraine was destroyed in the first one two days of war. Remember how USA destroyed Yugoslavia. We do not fight in such way. Because Ukrainian people are actually Russian people. We are all relatives. So why should we kill our relitives? If you check the story of conflict, you will find out that Crimea, and Donbass region joined Russia in their own will and they always voted for pro Russian government in Ukraine. But when real president was illegally removed from his post, removed not by election but by force, by weapons they did not accept those bandits in 2014. That is why illegal Ukraine government ( = killers ) sent solders to suppress citizens all over the Ukraine who protested against illegal government.

Yeah, American news are specially divided and extremely partial. It’s not like that in other democratic countries.

because english rt was made for westerns that don't know anything about East Europe so you can bite every propaganda that they made for you

@@gogobrasil7185 "It's not like that in other democratic countries." This statement is so wrong it's not even funny. We've got a bunch of outlets that go incredibly critical of Trudeau while being supersympathetic towards Poilievre, and wanna know who Pierre Poilievre is? Donald Trump 2.0. You read that right: a bunch of media outlets straight up wishing non-whites should gtfo because they insincerely believe Canada belongs to white people. Nazism? It's not just the US that has a problem with white supremacists. We've got plenty of these Sovereign Citizen nutjobs up here in the so-called "Great White North".

NATO IS GOD! maybe not totally, NATO IS THE BEST!. Typical CBC news story.

Actually, RT used to be quite good, I used to watch it from time to time as they showed what the west would never show from a very neutral point, but lately state got directly involved and the channel became as propagandistic tool

c'mon! as american you must understand that russian youtubers speak not for themselves or Russian ppl. They spread the point of view they paid for. btw, you don't feel a bit unfair that your government uses your taxes to sponsor Russian opposition? many of such oppositioners have lots of money and rich houses in usa and europe - this is the reason why majority of russian ppl don't trust them.

Those “heroes” openly supported invasion of Ukraine

I feel sorry for you, I hope you feel safe in Estonia with the invasion threats on the Baltics.

The U.S. Congress is funding an organization called Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), whose professed purpose, according to its website, is to “counter Russian disinformation.” But its real purpose may be to create the equivalent of a “fatwah list” of alleged traitors whom patriotic Americans and/or Ukrainians will feel they have a green light to assassinate.