![]() ![]() But although his PR gurus have proved adept at blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality, they didn’t create the widespread disorientation on which Putinism thrives. The Kremlin’s control of the airwaves has been central to this effort indeed, the capacity to bend public perceptions has been an integral part of Putin’s rule since he first came to power 15 years ago. ![]() In Russia, the hardening of the domestic consensus behind Putin has been helped along by the media’s increasingly strident nationalism, and by a propaganda chorus about western plots to undermine and destroy the country. ![]() T he war in eastern Ukraine, rumbling into life once more after the collapse of an unsteady ceasefire, has created a widening breach between Russia and the west, with relations now worse than they have been in decades. ![]()
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