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When the cameras are not rolling, even the most ardent Kremlin propagandists admit that in fact, the call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was far from “perfect.” After reviewing the incomplete transcript of the call, Evgeny Popov, the host of “60 Minutes,” the most popular news talk show in Russia, tweeted: “Brutal. That’s exactly what happened. Trump demanded. Zelensky obediently agreed. Both of them are finished.” But on-air and on-camera, the approach is markedly different and inevitably favors Trump. Appearing on “60 Minutes” a couple of weeks ago, Maria Shteinman, a professor at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics who specializes in communications, said the partial transcript of the call bears the classic hallmarks of manipulation and pressure, applied by the U.S. president toward his Ukrainian counterpart. Not so, insisted Popov: “It’s just a coincidence.”