Please leave your "look at the West" whataboutism out of it. In the end it's your problem how you solve it.
We in Russia had our media crushed, filtered by Yandex and most journalists fled the country or were murdered.
Your whataboutism is just trying to diminish our struggle.
Nothing you have said in your post is unique to the geography, at all. If that makes you feel less special, good; there is nothing special about being from one geographical location or another, and nothing special about a murder in Africa vs. a murder in South America.
Murder is murder, you don’t have a worse kind. If there is something to discuss, it’s not from an angle of ideological context-macht.