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'm most in sync with are like whoever's floating around in the international space station because there's nothing about my rite, my biarrhythms that are in sync with like 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 anchorwoman 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 Sandakova, who has apparently for many years been an employee

at a state television network called Channel 1, or Pierri Canal.

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 Sianikva'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 Ovsianikova frantically waves her sign.

At the bottom, she's spelled out Russians against war in English. And she also managed to yell a few

times, stopped the war, no to war. And then they cut to another segment. What happened to this

protester afterwards? So for almost a day, she was totally missing. No one could find her. There were

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