This article isn't about that newspaper. It's about the "Pravda network", a group of fake news websites, that according to the report linked in the article[1] produced "20,273 articles per 48 hours, or more than 3.6 million articles per year".
Clearly there's no need for "PhD in mental gymnastics".
[1] - https://www.americansunlight.org/updates/new-report-russian-...
One needs a PhD in mental gymnastics to frame Pravda spreading misinformation as an attempt to specifically groom LLMs.