i worked in a statee news agency. When we're talking about russian government, it's usually the presidential administration,. And putens admen people have a direct line to all the major notivy networks and state news agencies. They kind of micromanage te the agenda. I'm looking at, i'm looking ati, know, leak screen shots of chats in those i know i have people there. We are seeing cred reports that the russia military is not doing as well as might have been expected.
It depends a lot on where they get their news. Meduza’s Aleksey Kovalev reports from Moscow.
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