BBG Watch Commentary

From: World Media Watch

WorldMediaWatchLogoThe new World Media Watch website has been reporting for several days that the Kremlin controlled media is involved in an onslaught of rhetoric aimed against Ukraine and designed to confuse and persuade audiences in Russia, in Ukraine, and particularly in the West.

Onslaught of Ukraine rhetoric from RT and Voice of Russia, World Media Watch, Feburary 26, 2014

Two excellent new articles, in The Daily Beast and in The Financial Times expose some of Putin’s propaganda machine’s false claims.

“To justify its invasion of Crimea, the Kremlin and state-run media went into full fabrication mode this weekend. Here are the lies that Russia is telling its viewers back home, Oleg Shynkarenko writes in The Daily Beast.

Putin’s Crimea Propaganda Machine, Oleg Shynkarenko, The Daily Beast, March 03, 2014

“Yevgeny Savchenko, governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, had a worrying message this weekend. Thousands of refugees, he told Rossiya-24 television, were pouring into his region from neighbouring Ukraine, escaping what he called the chaos in the country,” Roman Olearchyk in Kiev, Jan Cienski in Kharkiv, and Neil Buckley in London reported for The Financial Times.

But as the FT reporters noted, “On Ukraine’s border with Belgorod on Sunday, 40km from east Ukraine’s biggest city of Kharkiv, things looked rather different. As occasional cars approached, they were waved through by bored-looking Ukrainian border guards.”

Russia wages propaganda war over Ukraine, By Roman Olearchyk in Kiev, Jan Cienski in Kharkiv, and Neil Buckley in London, The Financial Times, March 03, 2014

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is also exposing many of these false propaganda claims being put out by the Kremlin’s media. RFE/RL does it in many languages, including Ukrainian and Russian.

RFE/RL also offers a limited online news service in English specializing in reporting on political, media, economic, social and other issues in Eurasia, with a focus on in-depth analysis.

Recent examples of RT and Voice of Russia reports and commentaries:

Tue, Mar 04, 2014
Source: RT News (Russia)

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Source: RT News (Russia)

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Source: RT News (Russia)

Mon, Mar 03, 2014
Source: RT News (Russia)

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Source: RT News (Russia)

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Source: RT News (Russia)

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Source: Voice of Russia (Russia)

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Source: Voice of Russia (Russia)