The news inside Russia has been grim. For protesting against the war in Ukraine, 7,032 Russians are in detention. Long lines are forming at ATMs for cash. Europe and the United States are closing skies to Russian flights. The stock market is closed. Much of the world has condemned the war. And now President Vladimir Putin is pulling the plug on independent news so that Russians will not hear about any of it.
On Tuesday evening, the Russian censor, Roskomnadzor, acting at the orders of the Russian prosecutor-general’s office, blocked the two largest remaining independent…
