Pete Tar
Senior Member.
Don't forget it takes place in this context -
It's not an extraordinary claim.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-...n-propaganda-justifying-invasion-of-crimea/#2
The Most Hilarious Russian Propaganda Justifying the Invasion of Crimea
There is nothing funny about Russia’s invasion of Ukrainian Crimea. However, Moscow’s attempts to justify its naked aggression against Ukraine are positively hilarious.
Russia watchers in publications like POLITICO Magazine, The Daily Beast, Interpreter Mag and, of course, Russia Today have complied examples of some of the best pro-Russian propaganda available (though that last outlet is not aiming for irony).
Here are a few of the best samples:
Pro-European Protesters Were Shooting Themselves
prev
next
Russia Today (or, RT, as the network prefers to be known these days) demonstrated its total independence from Moscow on Thursday when it published audio of a telephone call between Estonia’s Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and The European Union’s High Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton. The call, which was randomly intercepted by highly capable but unidentified intelligence operatives, purports to reveal that Paet had informed Ashton that the EuroMaidan protesters hired snipers to shoot at EuroMaidan protesters, presumably to cause a pretext to topple the government (which eventually fell when Yanukovich fled and ordered local security guards to abandon government buildings). But the bombshell call removed the context of Paet’s comments. "I was talking on the theories there were about what happened...from both sides - among policemen and the people from the streets - that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides,” he later said. “It is extremely regrettable that phone calls are being intercepted,” Paet added. “The fact that this phone call has been leaked is not a coincidence.” [Photo via Sergei Supinsky/AFP]