Abbas Gallyamov says that “not a single revolution whose time has come has been stopped by the tightening of the screws against the media.” On the one hand, this is a logical tautology as a revolution that does not occur after repression against the media is by definition one whose time has not come.
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Paul Goble: Repression against media never stops revolution
Police officers detain a supporter of Ivan Safronov, a former journalist and aide to the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, outside the headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Services (FSB) in central Moscow on July 7, 2020.