Russia's Propaganda Machine Is Trying to Roostify Ukraine

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Russia has started to hand out Russian passports, for example, in occupied areas. They're really putting pressure on locals, giving them no choice really but to take a Russian passport. The currency has been changed. The rubles have been introduced. All Ukrainian products are now sold in stores. And notably, none of these things that you just told us about involve killing people.

Russia is paying teachers big bucks to teach a pro-Kremlin curriculum in Ukraine. It’s part of a campaign to formally annex occupied Ukraine into the Russian Federation.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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