Steve Sweeney
speaker
591 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Apr
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It's only isolated if you think the world is the Western powers.
So there is this freedom to criticize, but of course, it's hugely popular.
And I think people in the West
I find that very difficult to understand just how popular Putin is in Russia.
For example, RT is banned in the United States.
It's banned in Europe.
In Russia, you've probably seen, but Vladimir Putin holds a, every year he holds a Q&A for journalists, for members of the public.
Every year the BBC is there.
Steve Rosenberg asks a question.
He tries to get a gotcha every year.
He fails every year, but he keeps giving it a go.
But the BBC is allowed to operate freely inside Russia.
I couldn't do the same in Britain.
They'd try and arrest me.
Yes.
If I took an RT microphone into London and started trying to interview people, or if I stood in front of a camera with an RT microphone and started trying to give a report, I would be arrested.
We're banned.
We're treated as, I don't know, like foreign agents.
So it would be unlawful for us to work there.
We could be jailed, sanctioned.
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