A rapid collapse of the Russian media space is one of the conspicuous signs of the creation of a “new normality” – definitely not the only one, but maybe the main one. However, this issue is not for journalists to judge. In the hostile realities, literally taking place in a neighboring country, but also figuratively – on a planetary and civilization-wide scale (this is how the Kremlin-based ideologists present the state of things), freedom of speech seems to be an obstructive, heavy tail that beats in the legs, just like a relic of the past.
