Well, yeah, in US this stuff is limited by threat of lawsuits, HR, disciplinary action etc.
In Russia, it's more like it's the standard boss-secretary relationship, in 1930's, while mafia runs the city, the company is a mafia front, and the boss is a mafia lieutenant.
Yeah, that one was hard to believe, issued, yeah, more likely they had to buy that themselves
The logic you are using is ridiculous though, do you think that if some shit talking was propaganda, that means they are literal saints with perfect organization who do nothing wrong because everything bad said about them has to be propaganda too?