a lot of what they say on television is truth. it is true. how do you know? when i read in a foreign newspaper that russians bomb kharkiv and so on, i know it is not true because they promised not to do this and they will never do this. ivan kolpakov, as you listen to that, explain to us how important state television is within russian society in terms of forming people's view of the world. it is very important. for putin, television is the most important media. when he became president, russian television was independent and in the first years of his presidency he decided to clean it up and he used television as a ground of his power