Card " Country of Friends " The lord of the dolls. Portrait of Alexei Gromov, head of Russian state propaganda Mikhail Rubin, Maria Zholobova, Roman Badanin, January 23, 2019 It is well known that large Russian media and especially television are under the control of the authorities. This control is so total that journalists have not yet told about a person who has been supervising them from the Kremlin for almost 20 years.