already, he s more popular than ever at hope. the propaganda war is working for him? yeah, well, vladimir putin already had pretty tight control over the media and has tightened it even further. the few independent smallish media outlets echo moss v and tv are closed and taken off the air or otherwise silenced. and so first of all, the russian people are getting only a very, very, you know, propaganda version of events and that influences public opinion and there is a national quality to russian public opinion that supports, you know, putin s type of regime and has now for 22 years. there is the false support and then the genuine support for him in that sense. and thirdly i think that russians have prided themselves on, you know, enduring hardship generations, for centuries and