“Although it's increasingly clumsy and self-contradictory, it's terrifyingly effective [Russian state media influence on public opinion]. There are quite a few heartbreaking accounts of people living in Ukraine under the Russian bombs, they're calling their family members in Russia and telling them they're being bombed by the Russian army, and their own family members refuse to believe them. They say it couldn't be true, because, 'We see on television, the Russian army's only striking military targets. So you must be lying, or you're delusional.' It's happening in millions of families, including mine.”

by: Alexey Kovalyov