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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 slightly different here. he was trying to say that "i am part of the club of important nations, i'm on the high table of global politics," and this of course is a really big statement from putin because russia has been kicked out o...

Hello. some big topics on the media show today. in the west, it's reported as the ukraine crisis — 100,000 russian troops assembled near the border. president macron is on a whirlwind diplomatic mission this week to avert a conflict. but i want to look at how the situation is being reported in russia and in ukraine. is there the same sense of urgency in domestic media? how are both sides using the media to advance their own objectives? francis scarr is in moscow with bbc monitoring and he's going to help us do that. francis, on a lighter note first, you'll have seen those images of putin and...

The media to advance their own objectives? francis scarr is in moscow with bbc monitoring and he's going to help us do that. francis, on a lighter note first, you'll have seen those images of putin and macron sat at either end of a gigantic negotiating table this week. is this a table the kremlin rolls out for photo opportunities when they want to see the idea through the media that the west should sit at a distance from russia, or are all the tables like that? as you say, katie, plenty of political commentators have been saying that this was about political projection, about putin making macr...

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 claim 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...

The media show. hello. some big topics on the media show today. in the west, it's reported as the ukraine crisis — 100,000 russian troops assembled near the border. president macron is on a whirlwind diplomatic mission this week to avert a conflict. but i want to look at how the situation is being reported in russia and in ukraine. is there the same sense of urgency in domestic media? how are both sides using the media to advance their own objectives? francis scarr is in moscow with bbc monitoring and he's going to help us do that. francis, on a lighter note first, you'll have seen those ima...