Finnish newspaper uses video game Counter-Strike to dodge Russian censorship laws

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As It Happens5:52Finnish newspaper uses video game Counter-Strike to dodge Russian censorship laws

Russians playing war games online may find themselves stumbling across information about the very real war their country is waging in Ukraine.

A Finnish newspaper is using the popular video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to skirt the Russian propaganda laws that make it impossible to accurately report on the war inside the country.

“You are playing a fictitious war game, and suddenly there’s a spot where you find the rude reality of the world — that the war is actually very real and going on nearby,” Antero Mukka, editor-in-chief of

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