Inside Russia’s parallel reality. #ReadingRussia

Your reporting from Russia is outstanding and so valuable as to our understanding of what is happening there.

That’s very kind of you. Thank you Roberto.

Thank you for your insightful and interesting reporting, Steve. You make it easier to understand, from a layman's perspective, the twists and turns of Putin’s Russia.

Thanks very much Nicola.

I often wonder how safe are foreign journalists reporting in Moscow? The authorities must monitor output and opinions that are in sharp contrast to their propaganda. Are there arrangements securing uncensored reporting?@BBCSteveR

Thank you! Perhaps a psychanalyst would call it mirroring or narcissistic self-centeredness. Points to the weakness of all this in the long run. Once reality kicks in, there will probably be nothing left.

Appreciate your reports must be awful to have to read and listen to all the hateful poison the Russian authorities keep pumping out 24/7 365 days a year. I spent some time in the Soviet Union but in comparison this level of paranoia and hatred is a thousand times worse.

Steve, are you seeing a run on the banks in Moscow?

The trouble with parallel realities is that they eventually disappear up their own behinds.

@militaryhistori Great article. My gut reaction has been to include the people of Russia in all this, after all they think Putin is the god head and they empower him! But I suppose being spoon fed this claptrap then what else can they think? Freedom of thought isn’t a given