“For years, we didn’t pay attention to propaganda and to Russian TV channels that were always present here,” Recean said. “And when we started to close them, th

“For years, we didn’t pay attention to propaganda and to Russian TV channels that were always present here,” Recean said. “And when we started to close them, the propaganda moved to Telegram, Facebook, VKontakte [a Russian social media network], TikTok. With Telegram and TikTok, we cannot do anything about it except cut the wire. Thirty-something years of propaganda — we see the effect of it now.”