Maybe SCMP is A/B testing AI clickbait in their titles? Russia being Russia, the liberals would be banned for mis-trimmed toenails, if nothing more interesting could be found or fabricated.
Going to the elections with the anti-war slogans is what got them banned.
Putin can't let that sentiment get broadcasted during election campaign because sadly "anti-war" currently means "let's make a temporary truce and give the West time to rearm and rebuild Ukrainian army for the next round".
There's going to be a next round? Have russians lost all sense of what's embarrassing? Is one ass-kicking with 500k fatalities and an economy held together by nabiullina duct tape not enough? I guess russia just needs to collapse every 100 years..
Think of Snowden and Assange, for example. They had a lot to say and show, but one big democracy didn't like it