![]() ![]() Anyone can make one, with the most popular being a map called Dust 2 – a dusty vista resembling Morocco. The core gameplay revolves around the combat between terrorists and counter-terrorists. It was first launched in the year 2000 and has since become a world-wide phenomenon: a competitive multi-player game with approximately 37 million players a month ( activeplayer.io/counter-strike-global-offensive/ ). Ĭounter-Strike, developed by Valve Corporation, is the world’s best-known first-person-shooter. After the war in Ukraine started, Helsingin Sanomat began, together with the Swedish Dagens Nyheter and Danish Politiken, to publish news from the war in Russian. Advancing freedom of the press and distributing independent information have always been the most important values of Helsingin Sanomat, as well as its mission. The Finnish Helsingin Sanomat is the largest daily newspaper in the Nordics, founded in 1889. Īntero Mukka, Editor in Chief, Helsingin Sanomat, phone +358 44 757 9776, e-mail Sanomat *Source: Leetify, certified software platform that analyses the Counter-Strike playerbase, read more here. The more the map is played, the wider it spreads within the Counter-Strike community. The map, called de_voyna, is found within the game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. For example, the secret room is equipped with a map that details the number of bombings conducted by Russians at civilian targets in Ukraine. Helsingin Sanomat has brought independent information and images there, captured by its reporters and photographers in Ukraine during the war. The secret room resembles an underground newsroom. The secret room built into the game is meant to force Russian gamers to face what’s really going on in the war in Ukraine”, Mukka says. While he was there, Russian troops killed his family with a missile strike. One of the most touching stories in the secret room is about a Ukrainian man that went to the store. “Ordinary Russians know practically nothing about the war crimes and atrocities toward civilians committed by the Russian army. According to Mukka, none of these have been touched upon in Russian media. ![]() The editorial staff of Helsingin Sanomat has gathered information on civilian casualties, human suffering, the mass murders committed by Russian troops and the amount lives lost on the front to display in the secret room, in both Russian and in English. Hidden images and texts in the secret room detail the cruelties witnessed by Helsingin Sanomat’s reporters and photographers in Ukraine during the war. ![]() In Russia, it’s forbidden to use the word voyna when talking about the war in Ukraine.Ī secret room confronts Russian gamers with the truth about the war in Ukraine “As the Russian government has de facto suppressed its national press and blocked access to foreign media, Counter-Strike has remained as one of the rare channels that allows us to communicate independent information to Russians about real events from the war”, Mukka continues. A secret room near the Statue of Eternal Fire holds independent information related to the war in Ukraine.Īccording to Mukka, audiences typically do not expect to see journalistic content within video games, which might explain why the Russian administration hasn’t prevented Russians from accessing European Counter-Strike servers. We built a map of a Slavic city devastated by a war, inside the game, with a secret room that offers Russian gamers an uncensored access to the horrors of the war in Ukraine in their native language”, explains Antero Mukka, Editor in Chief of Helsingin Sanomat.ĭe_voyna, a map in the video game Counter-Strike, resembles a Slavic city devastated by an invasion. That’s why we decided to hide a newspaper inside the world’s most popular war game. However, the gaming world and gamers themselves are still left unchecked. “Russians have very little chance to receive independent information about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. It is estimated that over 4 million Russians* play Counter-Strike – a large portion of these are young men living in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The campaign, launched on the international World Press Freedom Day on 3 rd of May, aims to distribute independent journalism on the war in Ukraine – a subject forbidden in Russia – to as many Russian gamers as possible. Within the map, a secret room was constructed where Russian players could find information in Russian, relayed by Helsingin Sanomat’s war correspondents in Ukraine. That’s why Finland’s biggest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat decided to build a map of a war-torn Slavic city in Counter-Strike, a popular online shooter game with a large following in Russia. One media left unchecked is online gaming. After its full-scale invasion in Ukraine over a year ago, the Russian government has systematically blocked its citizens from accessing independent sources of information. ![]()
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