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| Think Russia isn’t directing rebels in Ukraine? Then read this about leaked emails |
| 2016-10-01 |
| [MCCLATCHYDC] The emails from Russia were pretty straightforward: The government in Kiev was to be referred to as fascist and compared to puppet dictatorships whenever possible. News reports were to mention as often as possible that the puppet master was the United States. For good measure, the Russian advisers even insisted that media handlers in the so-called "People’s Republic of Donetsk" provide a daily count of how many stories featured the phrase "It’s worse in Ukraine." The leaked emails, which were acquired and are being reported on by the German magazine Die Zeit and Germany’s public television broadcaster, ZDF, provide hard evidence of how closely involved Russia is in the separatist movement at the heart of Ukraine’s so-called civil war, which has taken almost 10,000 lives since 2014. That runs counter to the narrative promoted by Russian President Vladmir Putin and other Russian officials. |
| Posted by:Fred |