estonia also has this problem with integrating its russian speaking minority. even today you can go through the public school system and come out of it, you will speakest own yan but sometimes not all that well. you don t have a lot of places to practice. estonia will have russian-speaking bubbles for a long time, they just want to make sure that they are not russian kremlin propaganda bubbles, brian. scott, thanks so much. we learned a lot from that. thank you again. we will break in at any time if there are alerts from the war zone from ukraine and russia, we will bring you the latest. also coming up here, musk see tv, a media frenzy over elon musk s bid to take over twitter, is it all just an elaborate trolling. is this a story about trolling today, biden s press secretary with sharp words about fox s white house reporter.
24 hours a day with less and less information coming in from the outside, less and less information that is actually factually based, your grip on reality starts to slip. it s a scary ongoing situation. something that s becoming a bigger issue as the weeks and the months grind on. masha, thank you. i think this was a great journalism 101 course. thank you for coming on today. thank you, brian. let s stay on this theme now about russian propaganda. russian speakers in one of russia s eastern neighbors estonia have long been hooked on the programming coming out of russian state tv but since the start of the war they ve been partly cut off from that programming. with more on that scott mclien, live in the capital of estonia. tell us more about why you are in estonia and what you are learning there. reporter: brian, yeah, estonia has taken in a heck of a lot of ukrainian refugees, 30,000 of them. it may sound like a small number but this is a country of 1.3
million only and so that s more than 2% of the population now is a ukrainian refugee. you can understand whyest ownians feel so passionate about helping ukraine, they have a lot in common. they are both formerly part of the soviet union, they both have very large russian-speaking populations and they have both lived for the last few decades with the constant fear and threat of russian aggression. as you mentioned, estonia has also gotten used to russian propaganda beaming into living rooms across the country. it is trying to change that, but in practice it is tougher than it looks. in eastern estonia the vast birch forests and open plains dotted with industry and concrete apartment blocks can feel a lot like russia. most people are ethnically russian, many signs are in russian and russia itself is just across the river. in theest own yan border town of narwa more than 86% of the population speaks russian. even on this side of the river
native russian speakers make up a substantial chunk of theest own yan population, one of the many lasting legacies of the soviet era. many older people don t speak of a stone yan well and russian state media has been left to fill the void giving people a steady dose of kremlin propaganda. that is, until the start of the war in ukraine when estonia blocked many russian news outlets and tv channels, a decision that came with plenty of controversy. why i m not agree because i think great democracy don t any propaganda? many people here is buying some systems to become the russian colonels, it s not the way of reality. restrict is not the way. reporter: antennas are suddenly a popular item at electronic stores, russian speakers to easily pick up russian tv channels. others watch online through