role does television, and did it then and does it play now, in Russian culture and Russian society? And to that point, would you have the views that you have today, or the depth of understanding that you have today, not just as a result of the fact that you were an expat, but how instrumental was it that you were actually working inside of the machinery of television? I mean, look, there's other people who've written very, very good analyses of Russian propaganda without working in the television industry. So Arkady Ostrofsky's brilliant The Invention of Russia covers the 1990s, and the role that media and TV played in securing this new model of power. Andrew Wilson has written a great book called Virtual Politics, all about that as well. So it clearly didn't have to to write about this. I suppose it gave me a sense of the texture and the sense of the characters, and a sense of the kind of attitude of your regular TV workers who actually start this, and who are kind of like the sort of (11/57)
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