Russian expert blows the whistle and is interrupted on TV
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A Russian political scientist and well-known commentator was rudely interrupted live on Russian TV because he was talking out loud about what he believes are President Putin's real plans.


65-year-old propagandist Aleksandr Sytin spoke about foreign policy, but forgot for a moment what the Kremlin's official position is: Russia has been attacked and is only defending itself. According to Sytin, 'Russia is following a certain expansionist course. That's a fact'. To continue: “And not only in Ukraine, by the way.”

Discussion leader Andreij Norkin intervened at that moment. Just as Sytin explains why NATO wants to stop the Russians and how they want to do it, he is interrupted. “Not true!” shouts the moderator. “This is not expansion, but rather the defense of national interests and security.”

Norkin does not wait for Sytin's answer and says: “We have to interrupt. We're back after a break. Short break…"

The subtitled images were posted online by Julia Davis of the Russian Media Monitor. She follows and criticizes the Kremlin. She has been on Putin's sanctions list since May 2022.

It is not the first time that Aleksandr Sytin has gone off the rails. In October 2022, he criticized Putin live on TV, who was at the time bombing Ukraine's energy supply. “That way they cannot be broken,” said Sytin, who reminded people that Ukrainians were once residents of the Soviet Union. “They won't surrender because they suddenly have to fry their bacon over a candle.”