its overseas presence.
so billions and billions
of dollars, tens of billions
of dollars have been
spent doing this since.
kerry, thank you very much.
and let's talk about russia
now with francis scarr,
who follows russia
for bbc monitoring.
and, francis, kerry was talking
about self—censorship.
is that a similar situation
in russia, or is that how
the citizens of russia
approach things?
i think with russia there
is a large proportion -
of the population, _
unfortunately, that is willing
to consume the extremely i
anti—west and anti—ukrainian
narratives that are being put
out by the state media. -
the polling we have suggests
that around two—thirds -
of people still get most-
of their news from state tv.
just a few days ago, |
a major propagandist
was threatening to fire nuclear
weapons at the us and "sink .
the british isles", -
in his words, if the west
were to deploy regular
troops to ukraine. -
that said, there have been
a whole raft of kind -
of repressive laws which...