The Russian people have only state run news, which glorifies Putin nonstop. But outside of the privileged classes, people die young. Drug addiction is rampant, as is alcoholism, which results in male life expectancy of 64 years. Russian prisons are filled with men dying of drug resistant tuberculosis. In Siberia, factory workers die by the score from drinking methyl alcohol. Nevertheless they are proud. What person isn't proud of her/his nation, when so isolated from the raw truth by their media? Our media are diverse, without censorship. Once again you make the foolish mistake of considering our media to be monolithic, a single enterprise controlled by an unknown dictator. Will you ever learn? I doubt you will even read this, but here it is - our media are diverse, representing every viewpoint, just as our people are diverse. We know who publishes our news. We have media outlets that adore Trump, and outlets that do not. We have intelligent journalism, we have truly dumb journalism.