The article talks about Russia's totalitarian crackdown on speech against the country's invasion of Ukraine. Cited are the censorship law that Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed days after invading Ukraine which made it illegal to discredit the army, the extraordinary reach and invasiveness of the crackdown based on "The Times" analysis of Russian court records of people who were arrested or fined for breaking the law, and Russia's focus on stamping out dissent in public spaces.