Tobias Rupprecht, postdoctoral researcher and head of the Junior Research Group “Peripheral Liberalism”, was interviewed for a podcast "Wieder was gelernt" by the private news channel ntv. As an expert in the history of Russia, he explains why so many Russians believe in the Putin Regime's propaganda which obfuscates the Ukraine war, and how the regime has steadily built up control over Russia's media system since the 1990s. Listen to the podcast episode (in German) here.