So what are Russian TV viewers seeing of the war? What messages are they hearing over the airwaves? Below is a snapshot of what ordinary Russians would have picked up, on Tuesday 1 March, while channel-hopping across the country's key TV stations, which are controlled by the Kremlin and its corporate allies.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60571737 

channel-hopping ['ʧæn(ə)lˌhɔpɪŋ] ; ; channel-surfing быстрое переключение телевизионных каналов (в поисках чего-л. интересного) channel-hopping N-UNCOUNT Channel-hopping means switching quickly between different television channels because you are looking for something interesting to watch. [BRIT] (in AM, use channel-surfing)

Equivalence in translation from English into Russian

BRASILIA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro disauthorized his Vice President Hamilton Mourao on Thursday for saying that Brazil opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Mourao earlier on Thursday condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His comments went well beyond a statement by Brazil's Foreign Ministry expressing concern about Russia's military operations and urging a diplomatic solution.

Bolsonaro, speaking on a webcast to his supporters, said only he the president could speak about the crisis between Russia and Ukraine, and it was not Mourao's business.

disavow [ˌdɪsə'vau] 1) отрекаться (от чего-л.) , не признавать (что-л.) ; снимать с себя ответственность Syn: repudiate , disclaim , forswear 2) дезавуировать

The substantivized adjectives (Субстантивированные прилагательные)
Rule of thumb (железное правило)
The substantivized adjectives + Verb in the Plural
 In English we can combine the definite article THE with an adjective to create a group noun meaning 'all of...' This is common for nationalities. They also take a plural verb.
'The British are coming. The British are coming.' (They...)
The blind, the deaf, the sick, the mentally ill, the handicapped, the poor, the rich, the unemployed, the old, the dead
Most other adjectives cannot be used in this way. You cannot normally say *the foreign, *the happy, * the disgusting
Exclusion: The substantivized adjectives + Verb in the Singular
The deceased – покойник, покойники
The accused - обвиняемый, обвиняемые (в суде)
The military - военный, военные
A BBC news report:
The Ukrainian military claims to have shot down at least six Russian aircraft and lost at least forty of its troops

Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam
Im Norden auf kahler Höh'
Ihn schläfert; mit weißer Decke
Umhüllen ihn Eis and Schnee.
Er träumt von einer Palme,
Die fern im Morgenland
Einsam und schweigend trauert
Auf brennender Felsenwand.

На севере диком стоит одиноко
На голой вершине сосна.
И дремлет, качаясь, и снегом сыпучим
Одета, как ризой, она.
И снится ей все, что в пустыне далекой,
В том крае, где солнца восход,
Одна и грустна на утесе горючем
Прекрасная пальма растет.

М.Ю.Лермонтов

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With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely spoken languages and, as Priya Sippy writes, there is a renewed push for it to become the continent's lingua franca.

"It's high time we move from the coloniser's language."

This is not part of a rousing speech by a pan-African idealist but rather the sentence is uttered quietly and calmly by Ghanaian Swahili student Annabel Naa Odarley Lankai.

But her words echo declarations by the continent's visionaries down the decades.

Africa should "have something that is of us and for us", the 23-year-old adds.

In its heartland, Swahili and its dialects stretch from parts of Somalia down to Mozambique and across to the western parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

But Ms Lankai's classroom at the University of Ghana in the capital, Accra, is some 4,500km (2,800 miles) west of Swahili's birthplace - coastal Kenya and Tanzania.

Ниже приведён пример одного и того же отрывка из «Заводного апельсина» в оригинале и в двух переводах на русский язык:

Э. Бёрджесс:

Our pockets were full of deng, so there was no real need from the point of view of crasting any more pretty polly to tolchock some old veck in an alley and viddy him swim in his blood while we counted the takings and divided by four[1].

пер. В. Бошняка:

Карманы у нас ломились от babok, а стало быть, к тому, чтобы сделать в переулке toltshok какому-нибудь старому hanyge, obtriasti его и смотреть, как он плавает в луже крови, пока мы подсчитываем добычу и делим ее на четверых, ничто нас, в общем-то, особенно не понуждало[4].

пер. Е. Синельщикова:

British foreign minister mocked by Russia after geography gaffe

Liz Truss said that the UK’s “Baltic allies” were located on the Black Sea, despite them being over 1,000km apart

It was not the only geographic discovery by Liz Truss.

MOSCOW, February 10. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss refused to recognize Russia’s sovereignty over the Voronezh and Rostov Regions at talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday.

Mr Macron, who also spoke with US President Joe Biden on Sunday, cautioned against expecting Moscow to take unilateral measures to de-escalate the situation and said Russia had the right to raise its own concerns.

"This must be done while respecting Russia and understanding the contemporary traumas of this great people and great nation."

By Amy Yee 31st January 2022 Subjected to repeated disinformation campaigns, the tiny Baltic country of Estonia sees media literacy education as part of its digital-first culture and national security. For two days riots raged in Estonia's capital Tallinn. Protestors clashed with police and looters rampaged after the violence was sparked by controversy about a decision to move a military statue erected during Soviet rule. The flames of outrage among Estonia's Russian-speaking minority were fanned by false news spreading online and in Russian news reports. The disinformation campaign then escalated into what is considered the first cyber-attack against an entire country. The attack, which was linked to Russia, shut down websites of Estonia's government, banks and media outlets.