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Wouldn't put this pass the clown Foreboding - A popular game show that aired on a Russian state TV channel as calls for protests grew earlier this month featured a children’s choir, with members dancing enthusiastically and singing about how they don’t need the internet. “The monitor’s blue screen won’t ruin my dinner,” they crooned. Nadezhdin said in a phone interview that he supported the protests and had personally applied with authorities in the capital and the wider Moscow region for gatherings of up to 10,000 people. All his requests were turned down citing Covid concerns, he said. “The slogans are clear,” he said. “Bring back the internet, bring back Telegram, we don’t need your MAX,” he said, referring to the so-called national messenger increasingly imposed on Russians by the Kremlin. Critics say the app could be used for mass surveillance.. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/putin-telegram-internet-blackouts-russia-moscow-protests-rcna265067

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