Here are links to previous blogs about this issue:
https://animate-tim.com/2019/04/18/htv-in-russia/
https://animate-tim.com/2019/04/20/more-on-the-ethics-of-dubbing/
https://animate-tim.com/2019/04/19/masha-and-the-bear/
While Putin himself declared that he liked the music of Elton John, and would meet him, he failed to do so in 2015.
Here is a link to the BBC report that was published about my experience of this (26th June)
https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/c200wjny
animate-tim.com 