Sure. These days, Vladimir Putin and his Russian boys have their once quasi-democratic country rigged. Unless you’ve been out of touch lately, a rolling stone gathering no information/moss, you’ve put this together, placed it carefully in your pocket, and probably haven’t thought about it since.

When a media outlet, particularly a television news station, claims that it’s “state owned”, that means that it’s there for one reason above all: to serve as a mouthpiece of the government and those in charge (i.e. Vlad).

Take the following example depicted in the footage below. It’s a clip of a recent news broadcast that aired on “state-owned” (yes) Rossiya 24, and, quite frankly: it’s hilarious — if you can get past the fact that it’s dealing with killing people in a foreign land (and not just ISIS militants, like they’re claiming).

The blonde anchorwoman walks viewers through visualizations and offers spoken words as to why October is great bombing weather for Russian aircraft … in Syria.

“From a meteorological perspective, the time chosen for the start of the operation was very fortunate, in October in Syria will be very advantageous for pilots,” she said.

But moving quickly is essential, she stressed. Dust storms are in the forecast for the coming weeks.

Forces TV