he deliberately built a system where he banished people for bad news and he really only heard what he wanted to hear. so this is the reality that we're facing right now. >> so these advisers you talk about that are devastated by the consequences and know the reality, are they communicating with each other, are they -- do they pose a threat to putin? is there any sort of conversation or organization to any of this? or no? >> this is a very important to understand. because communications between government officials are intercepted by security services. so they are surveilled to a bigger extent than the opposition is. if anything, two people, three people or more will start to discuss that putin has taken the country in the wrong direction, this is to -- with large