Do you have any information regarding the pressures by the Russian government on Sputnik?

Sorry, let me explain my question instead of asking it in one sentence, to provide more detailed context. Western news agencies, and subsequently their journalists, have a set of journalistic standards for news stories, including standards for how what constitutes a credible source, and what is the right level of fact checking before they can post a news story. In addition, free-world media share similar governments, freedoms of the Press, and freedoms surrounding Speech. For example, in America we assume that the views of our journalists don't necessarily reflect the views of the US government. Whereas in Dictatorship Nations, the views of the media a very likely to represent the views of the government, because the Dictatorship governments have the power to enforce narratives. That information will be relevant to by question in a moment.

With that in mind, I'll explain what's going on, and maybe you can help. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. And on April 3, 2022, the Russian government owned news agency, RIA Novasti, published an article called "What Should Russia Do With Ukraine". The contents of the article attempt to explain that Russia's purpose for the war in Ukraine is "to denazify Ukraine by de-Ukrainianizing Ukraine", based on a narrative about 'Nazism in Ukraine' Russia began promoting when they invaded Ukraine in 2014. But the worst part of the article is that it outlines a genocide plan for Ukraine as well. The day after it was published, Historians and Holocaust Survivors around the world condemned the narrative, calling it a genocide plan for Ukraine, and accused the Russian government of undermining the seriousness of the genocide of the holocaust.

The key reason why Historians and Holocaust survivors denounced Russia's government for this 'genocide narrative plan' for Ukraine is, because, unlike western media, the historians and holocaust survivors understand very well that Russia's government right now controls the media to tightly and the war in Ukraine is the highest priority in Russian history to them, that the idea Russia constantly monitors and micromanages ordinary media to control Russia's information space, but somehow not have done so for an article about the Ukraine war, the Kremlins top national security priority in all of Russia, is unthinkable. Russia has changed their laws since the war in Ukraine started to crack down on censorship and they have arrested hundreds of people for something called "defaming the Russian Armed Forces", for saying things like "Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, is attractive and does well for his people..". Any attitudes, or hint of sympathy for Ukraine or Ukrainians is swiftly punished by the Russian government. Russian citizens have been put in jail and sentenced for up to 15 years in prison for 'discrediting the Russian Armed Forces' because they posted a picture of a Ukrainian flag and expressed sympathy for Ukraine and called for an end to the war, etc. The Kremlin has banned the color combination of Yellow with Blue, because those are the colors on Ukraine's flag and it might be considered support for Ukraine. And the Kremlin has been very careful to control the narrative about the war in Ukraine in every other respect. The effort has been unprecedented even for Russia. Everything in the article has been supported by Putin in speeches, though he has never directly pointed to the that article. The only part of the narrative in the article that Putin hasn't brought up is the fact that it's genocide and that he is carrying that plan out in Ukraine right now. You have to understand that, right now, Russia has immersed the Russian population in a provably false narrative that Russia is "defending itself" by conquering Ukraine and Putin accuses Ukraine of shelling Donbas for 8 years, when the UN and every Nations leaders are very aware from their experienced over the past 8 years, that Putin has been staging false flag attacks in Donbas for 8 years to build a casus belli to invade Ukraine again, which is finally did on February 24, 2022.

Which brings me to my current issue and questions. I have observed that Russian information warfare has influenced the media and western politicians to push peace talks, even though Putin has launched 3 full scale invasions into Ukraine and taken territory in the past 8 years, and in those years, he has violated all 3 peace deals that were made, and he violated all 26 ceasefires and continued taking territory anyway. Experts know Russia's larger goals by conquering Ukraine are to restore former USSR borders, so Russia will invade Ukraine again if they make peace. And letting Russia keep any land it has stolen from Ukraine in the past 3 invasions would ensure a fourth invasion. The west is already suffering from war fatigue and the US aid to Ukraine has been targeted by US arty politics, mainly by the far right republicans, who have been heavily influenced by non stop Russian PSYOPS efforts by the Russian troll farms, which are under the direction of the Russian Ministry of Defense and Information Warfare Departments in Russia's government. Therefore, foreign aid for Ukraine is at grave risk of being cancelled, and Russia has been very effective at discouraging support for Ukraine's defense online in social media comments.

Every since Russia published the controversial genocide article, it has received little to no coverage in the media, therefore, nobody in the west even knows of it's existence, in spite of comments on social media trying to let people know about it. The article's contents if inherently offensive as well, so when people try to share it on social media, the language filters always delete it, so nobody is able to share the article on social media either. Which means nobody can spread awareness of it efficiently. And people also can't use the word 'genocide' in comments on social media because the language filters delete the comment, thereby making it virtually impossible to get the message to the western population. They need to be warned that while Russia is promoting various political excuses as smokescreens for the media to argue about, there is also the scary reality that Russia's intentions re the genocide of Ukraine. If they knew that fact, they would understand why it won't matter how many times Ukraine makes peace. And if Ukraine makes peace before restoring it's international territory, 20% of which is currently under illegal Russian occupation, Russia will consider the past 3 invasions a success because they made progress towards their ultimate goal of restoring USSR borders. Ukraine will not support a peace deal because in this case, peace deals that cede are a death sentence for Ukraine, they cannot handle a fourth invasion and letting Putin keep land ensures a fourth invasion. Putin has a perfect track record of violating 100% of peace deals and he uses peace deals as a way to get a break and strengthen his military again, then returns.

I want to reiterate again that the Western media isn't covering this genocide concern at all. I found one article from The Washington Post that said they heard about the article, looked into it, then disregarded it because it wasn't written by a Kremlin official.... But that isn't the way the Kremlin operates. When something is controversial and they know it, they distance themselves from it by having others say it in Russia. Washington Post and Western Media are applying the same journalistic standards to Russia, when Russia is a totally different culture and their government doesn't operate like ours. Their ignorance about Russia's media and government is making it possible for Putin to get away with a geocide intention in front of the world, without even hiding it, and it's not even part of the dialogue in politics in America on the far right, who have been the most heavily influenced by Russia's disinformation and they don't want to fund Ukraine because they think it's just a turf war. and that Putin's aggression can be stopped by ceding land. But they wouldn't' think that if they knew Putin's real intentions.

Considering all of this, I want to create a social media post that illustrates and preferably proves that Washington Posts logic that just because Putin himself didn't publish the article doesn't mean it's not his plan. But I need evidence to prove this case. If I can compile a decent argument to convince people that the fact it's on RIA Novasti after 2 years is just one of the evidences that Putin supports the plan. I should also mention he has already been promoting all the other concept sin the article, and he has also been carrying out the plan inside occupied territory. People can be arrested in Russian occupied territory are charged with Nazism for saying "Slava Ukraini", or if they have ever supported Ukraine as a sovereign nation. The plan is being carried out in occupied territory. I need to find proof or evidence from a credible source to make my argument. If I can make this argument successfully, maybe the other media channels will take notice and begin covering this important aspect of Russians war in Ukraine, before it's too late and Ukraine loss their funding and gets conquered.