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Cnn's matthew chance had a chance to speak with the pranksters and investigate the motive behind their tricks. take a look. >> they're notorious pro-kremlin pranksters. the ukraine war has given them a new focus and new victims to deceive. >> look who's there, mr. president. >> like george w. bush, who thought he was speaking with the ukrainian president, who had supposedly called to discuss the western military alliance. >> you always wanted to take ukraine into nato, not russia, but ukraine, always, as i remember. >> that's right. you see, i felt ukraine needed to be in the eu and in nato. [...

>> that could hurt our society, of course. >> reporter: but the truth is, really powerful russians would never tolerate being pranked in this way. they would simply be unable to get away with duping a kremlin that's cracked down hard on dissent, whereas russia's enemies in the west, especially in the u.s., are considered fair game. >> okay. yeah. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good talking to you. >> thank you. [ speaking non-english ] >> reporter: matthew chance, cnn, london. just ahead, we'll tell you what caused this reaction. look at the happiness at a college commencement ceremon...

Russian state news agency Tass says the car of a prominent pro-Kremlin novelist exploded...

What happened onjanuary 8, - that there's a lot of facts that we need to check, l and the government is doing all the efforts they can do i to remove the signatures who give support to that. ok, well, joao... we know exactly what happened on january 9, that was clear and open to everyone. we'll take ricardo saying "face the facts." we hope you will. i want to quickly go to a social media question, because you touched on it about the security forces, from sylvia, and i'll read her question. "one of the first measures of the new government "was to change the command with the aim of depoliticisin...

Are still there. one of the questions which came up when we asked for questions was the fight against corruption. no matter who's in power, it continues to plague brazil. and, joao, even though you talk about looking to the future, you have a past — the workers party has a past for decades in corruption. what can you tell our audience, people listening, watching, what you're going to do to fight against corruption in this new term? well, corruption is a big issue in brazil and was, and all — basic — all the public parties, the political parties were involved in some way on corruption and...