You think it's fake news ?
Well, from the link you yourself provided:
Nikita's dream is to become an entertainer. He wants to be like Ivan Urgant, a Russian late-night talk show host similar to Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Kimmel.
"But you can't speak freely on TV," he says. And censorship is not the only problem.
"We live in a feudal state here in Russia," Nikita says. "If I look for a good position after graduation, all the nice posts will be taken by well-connected sons."
I'll let you decide that one.
Perhaps Putin's 76% share of the vote came about, in part, anyway, because his opposition couldn't even get a fair hearing ?
And no doubt the Kremlin won't allow news to be broadcast they don't initially approve of (.. as if I had any doubts on that score !!).