leads ordinary russians to trust the west even less. what do you think about that? well, i think it s definitely a problem that many russians, especially young people here they hold the west in high regard. and they want a future for their own country where the media is as free as it is in the west. and they re looking at some of these really speculative reports about what putin might be planning in ukraine. and lots of reputable outlets publishing reports citing anonymous intelligence sources in the us and the uk, which the journalists aren t verifying. and they re asking, well, how can we trust this any more then we re trusting what our own government s telling us? and just going back to that giant negotiating table, you spotted that putin was using the informal when addressing macron. which some see as being his way of signalling to russian viewers that they re friends and that russia isn t some sort of pariah. how do you read it? well, in russian, there are two ways of addressi
invasion that would involve internment camps for ukrainians, and he calls out foreign entertainment which he says leads ordinary russians to trust the west even less. what do you think about that? well, i think it s definitely a problem that many russians, especially young people here they hold the west in high regard. and they want a future for their own country where the media is as free as it is in the west. and they re looking at some of these really speculative reports about what putin might be planning in ukraine. and lots of reputable outlets publishing reports citing anonymous intelligence sources in the us and the uk, which the journalists aren t verifying. and they re asking, well, how can we trust this any more then we re trusting what our own government is telling us? and just going back to that giant negotiating table, you spotted that putin was using the informal when addressing macron. which some say is his way of signalling to russian viewers that they re friends in
and lots of reputable outlets publishing reports citing anonymous intelligence sources in the us and the uk, which the journalists aren t verifying. and they re asking, well, how can we trust this any more then we re trusting what our own government s telling us? and just going back to that giant negotiating table, you spotted that putin was using the informal when addressing macron. which some see as being his way of signalling to russian viewers that they re friends and that russia isn t some sort of pariah. how do you read it? well, in russian, there are two ways of addressing someone. te, which is less formal, and ve, which is more formal. and some of the listeners might remember our correspondent here, steve rosenberg, was on a while ago, talking about his interview with alexander lukashenko, the leader of belarus, who used the less formal address for steve. and steve took this as almost belittlement, an attempt to insult him. i think what putin was doing with macron was slightl
right. so clearly the way it s being reported in the region is very different depending on where you are. but what about this from andrey pertsev, the journalists at meduza, a news website that s based in latvia so as to bypass russian censorship. he says that some western reporting in the ukraine is basically akin to alarmist click bait. he cites a report in bild, in germany, last weekend that claimed to have putin s plan for the full scale invasion that would involve internment camps for ukrainians, and he calls out foreign entertainment which he says leads ordinary russians to trust the west even less. what do you think about that? well, i think it s definitely a problem that many russians, especially young people here they hold the west in high regard. and they want a future for their own country where the media is as free as it is in the west. and they re looking at some of these really speculative reports about what putin might be planning in ukraine. and lots of reputable outl