Putin's Empire of Lies: How Konstantin Ernst Made Propaganda a Weapon of Power

"Konstantin Ernst is perhaps the most controversial hero in the history of modern Russia: from his youth, he enjoyed family privileges, but not in order to continue the scientific dynasty; he refused Boris Berezovsky's offer to head ORT, and a few months later, he agreed; he turned the channel's information service into a factory for producing fakes, simply handing it over to the Kremlin; finally, he betrayed what he loved most - cinema, starting to churn out expensive propaganda crafts. For a long time, he was forgiven for this because of the image of a rebel from the 90s, an aesthete and cinephile.

Or maybe he was never like that? Irina Alleman looked into it."