Put the squeeze on Russian media (8)
I believe the answer is:
compress
'put' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'the squeeze on russian media' is the wordplay.
'the squeeze' becomes 'press' (I've seen this before).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'russian media' becomes 'com' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'press' put after 'com' is 'COMPRESS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for compress that I've seen before include "Squeeze into less space" , "Press tightly together" , "Crush" , "Make more compact" , "Reduce by squeezing" .)