That’s interesting.

A man with curly hair and a beard, wearing a dark suit and white shirt, sits in a studio with a blurred audience behind him, reacting with changing facial expressions—shock, surprise, and attentiveness—while a man with glasses and a dark suit appears in a smaller inset video on the right, speaking via Skype. The setting is a television news studio with a lower third graphic in Russian identifying the speaker as Oleg Soskin, an economist and political analyst, and a news ticker at the bottom.