Carefully. russian media isn t just some independent journalist going about news gathering. this is the main conduit by which the russian states, the kremlin, communicates information to the russian public. and so in some ways there are sort of they re spokespeople, a platform, official platform for the kremlin. it s interesting that when this crash took place, which is approximately 6:00, i think 6:13 is when it disappeared from radar, this plane, local time it was about 11:00, 11:30, 11:16 in the united states in eastern time. putin was in the city of kersk, elsewhere in russia, talking about loyalty to the motherland. he was commemorating the 80th anniversary since the second world war battle of kersk, tank battle, talking about how loyalty in that battle and loyalty during what he calls the