06/03/2025June 3, 2025Navalny’s widow and RSF launch TV channel to fight Russian ‘censorship’
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and Reporters Without Borders, have launched a television channel that aims to bypass censorship in Russia and preserve the Kremlin critic’s legacy.
The new channel, called “Russia’s Future” will be broadcast via a free-to-air satellite platform run by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a press freedom advocacy group.
“There is full censorship in Russia, and under a dictatorship it is very difficult to spread information. We try to do our best on YouTube but the Kremlin often tries to block it, and it is very important to us to spread visibility … I think it will be a long collaboration,” Navalnaya said in a statement.
“We think it’s really important that we are able to reach the Russian population as much as we can,” RSF head Thibaut Bruttin said.
The channel will launch on Wednesday, June 4, via the Svoboda Satellite package. That is the day Navalny would have turned 49.
The Svoboda Satellite platform, launched by RSF, provides free-to-air broadcasting of independent Russian-language TV channels to audiences in Russia and beyond.
Alexei Navalny, once seen as the most prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died under mysterious circumstances in an Arctic penal colony on February 16, 2024.
His relatives, friends and colleagues say he was murdered at the behest of Putin.