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Slack.com slash DHQ. Kevin Rothrock says it's a little hard to describe his job right

now. He lives in Connecticut. He reports on Russia. So his work is sort of everywhere

all the time. I think probably of all the people in the earth, the people I most

in sync with, they're like the whoever's floating around in the International Space

Station, because there's nothing about my biorethms that are in sync with the normal

rotation of the planet. Medusa, the website where Kevin's

an editor, calls itself the real Russia today. So he was the guy I wanted to get on the

line when I saw this tape earlier this week of a state television employee barnstorming

a Russian newscast. I use the term newscast figuratively. It's more of a hardcore propaganda

program. In this video, an anchor woman is sitting at her desk, blandly reading copy,

when another woman jumps into the frame behind her, holding a hand drawn poster.

This woman, named Marina of Santa Cava, who is apparently for many years been an employee

at a state television network called Channel One, her Pieterbick channel. It's one of

the big ones. She decided to interrupt an evening news bulletin or news broadcasts with

one of the most recognizable TV anchors in Russian television.

Marina of Cianicov's poster reads, they're lying to you. For about five seconds, she's

engaged in a kind of standoff. The anchor keeps reading while of Cianicov's frantically waves

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