From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story.
I'm Manveen Rana.
I first met my future mother-in-law in 1999 or 2000, I think.
And at the time, she wasn't at all opposed to the fact that her daughter was going out with a British citizen.
She even said to us, why do you want to stay in Russia?
Why didn't you just move to Britain?
There's nothing good that's ever going to happen here.
And she was even angrier when we said, no, I don't want to stay.
We like you here.
It's interesting.
That's Mark Bennett, a Times foreign correspondent and dream son-in-law.
He lived in Russia for 25 years, got married out there,
had a family, and was our Moscow correspondent before he was forced to leave after the war in Ukraine began.
Over those 25 years, he witnessed the country change.
As the years went by, state media, state propaganda began to kind of ramp up the hatred,
the kind of sheer lunacy of their reporting.
And especially about Ukraine, but also about Britain,
about the West, telling Russians that the West was this kind of hell hole where children were forced to call up their mothers
and fathers, parent one and parent two, where.
In Scandinavia, sex with animals was legal and was encouraged.