Opinion

As a Russian journalist, this is the knock I dread

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As a journalist, and not a tech expert, I can list only a few technological solutions to breaking through to reach my fellow Russians. Satellite internet, affordable and cheap VPN services, secure email services and messengers — this is what is needed now to help end the war.

But what is needed even more is willingness of the global tech giants to hold the line in resisting Putin's pressure to shut down critical voices. And they need to use their much vaunted innovative and entrepreneurial talents to do what they can to break through Putin's new Iron Curtain.

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