“A military special operation involves a lot of Setu.” Why was Petser’s teacher needed at the Kremlin’s propaganda event?

“It’s nice when you can calmly communicate with a representative of another nationality in the common Russian language,” says Jelena Variksoo, a teacher from Petseri who met Putin.

I communicate with representatives of other nationalities in English and it’s nice too. Jelena is useful and stubborn, but she doesn’t understand it herself…