Russian Independent News Company has collected more than US$250,000 of cryptocurrency donations from its supporters to enable it to report independent news even under an avalanche of Russian propaganda, and censorship.

Meduza, a Latvian-based Russian-language news site that claims to report on “the real Russia, today” has been asking for donations since March in the form of USD, euros and cryptocurrency, including (BTC), (ETHBinance,BNB), (USDT), Monero (XMR) and zcash (ZEC).