In Italy, just about everyone is invited to television who says the most crude things possible about the Ukraine war. Now parliament wants to know whether the propagandists are being paid by Moscow.
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Oliver Meiler, Rome
The program has been running for a while, the studio of “L’aria che tira” on La 7 is brightly lit again, like an operating room, everything is cold and white, the armchairs, the decor, the presenter’s blouse. Then Myrta Merlino asks her guest Nadana Fridrikhson, who is connected from Moscow, with the usual non-binding Italian familiar form: “Say, I have to ask you that now, the whole of Italy is asking: are you an official of Putin’s government – are you a spy?”