I am from Germany so I don't know about your first question. For your second question: I myself don't know too much about this in regards to the internet, but

I am from Germany so I don't know about your first question. For your second question: I myself don't know too much about this in regards to the internet, but I have read in a couple of white papers that 1: a large majority of Russians (esp. those in rural areas) have TV as their main source of news. Print is only a minority (has small relevance). 2: Most TV is controlled by the government and if they are not they don't criticize the government as there is a fear of being shut down. 3: The Russian media is said to state false Fact as well as to distort Facts/Events. I don't have the time to link specific sources but you can find what I said if you research freedom of press on google and google scholar. There are also renown sites with lists such as a freedom of speech index. Russia ranks 148. https://rsf.org/en/ranking https://rsf.org/en/ranking https://scholar.google.de/scholar?hl=en&q=russia+freedom+of+press&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=&oq=russia+fre https://scholar.google.de/scholar?hl=en&q=russia+freedom+of+... http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1461669032000176332 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616690320001763... http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/108118001129172260?journalCode=hija http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1081180011291722...