The Kremlin’s war on censorship looks a lot like trigger warnings in NYC, dissident Russian director says

Source: New York Post

Exiled from Russia for defending Ukraine, a rising director expected freedom when he fled for the Big Apple – but instead found crippling censorship eerily similar to life under the eye of the Kremlin. Sasha Molochnikov ventured to New York City to start anew in August 2022 — enrolling at Columbia University and pursuing a master’s in fine arts — after fleeing Russia following its unpopular invasion of Ukraine. But he quickly encountered stifling limitations in free speech that brought back vivid nightmares of Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin’s iron rule.