Russian streaming platforms, courts, and schools enforce strict state censorship rules

Russian media platforms, publishers, and educational institutions are increasingly modifying content to align with state ideological regulations.

An investigation by Mediazona, cited by The Insider, revealed that domestic streaming service Amediateka removed over 75 hours of footage from 200 foreign series. Censorship altered nearly half of the platform's imported catalog, removing roughly 7,300 individual clips targeting references to LGBT themes, substance use, suicide, and incest.

Separately, Verstka reported that a Russian court banned the sports romance novel Heated Rivalry, ruling that the book promoted prohibited non-traditional sexual relationships.

In public education, NEXTA reported that new supplementary materials introduced in Russian schools frame military service in Ukraine as honorable while explicitly criticizing Western cultural influences.

Sources: Mediazona, NEXTA, The Insider, Verstka.