Overview
- The station began broadcasting on June 4, Alexei Nawalny’s birthday, to offer an alternative to state-controlled media.
- Julia Nawalnaja partnered with Reporter ohne Grenzen to produce exile-made programs transmitted via satellite.
- It targets roughly 4.5 million households across Russia and about 800,000 in occupied Ukrainian regions.
- Nawalnaja said the initiative responds to what she calls 'almost complete censorship' after Kremlin blocks of her YouTube outreach.
- The project continues the legacy of Alexei Nawalny, who died under unclear circumstances in February 2024 after a 19-year 'extremism' sentence.