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NYT: Russkies become insolent and lie on events in Ukraine
4/16/2014 11:02:44 PM
The New York Times reported on traditional Russian lies in connection with Russkies' aggression against Ukraine:
- Russia is quick to bend truth about Ukraine.
The Facebook post on Tuesday morning by Medvedev was bleak and full of dread.
"Blood has been spilled in Ukraine again", wrote Medvedev, once favored in the West for playing good cop to the hard-boiled president, Putin. "The threat of civil war looms".
He pleaded with Ukrainians to decide their own future "without usurpers, nationalists and bandits, without tanks or armored vehicles — and without secret visits by the CIA director".
And so began another day of misinformation, exaggerations, conspiracy theories, overheated rhetoric and, occasionally, outright lies about the political crisis in Ukraine that have emanated from the highest echelons of the Kremlin and reverberated on state-controlled Russian television, hour after hour, day after day, week after week.
It is an extraordinary propaganda campaign that political analysts say reflects a new brazenness on the part of Russian officials. And in recent days, it has largely succeeded — at least for Russia's domestic audience — in painting a picture of chaos and danger in eastern Ukraine, although it was pro-Russian forces themselves who created it by seizing public buildings and setting up roadblocks.
In essence, Moscow's state-controlled news media outlets are loudly and incessantly calling on Ukraine and the international community to calm a situation that Ukraine, the United States and the European Union say the Kremlin is doing its best to destabilize.
Even the United Nations weighed in. In a report released Tuesday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said that threats to ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, cited repeatedly by Russian officials and in the Russian news media as a potential rationale for Russian military action, were exaggerated and that some participants in the protests in the region came from Russia.
There is no question that the new Ukrainian government and its Western allies, including the United States, have engaged in their own misinformation efforts at times, with officials in Kiev making bold pronouncements in recent days of enforcement efforts that never materialized. On Tuesday, some American officials were spreading unverified photographs allegedly showing Russian rocket launchers carried by pro-Russian demonstrators in eastern Ukraine.
"It's all lies", said Lilia Shevtsova, an expert on Russian politics at the Carnegie Moscow Center. "The Russia leadership doesn't care about how it's being perceived in the outside world, in the world of communication, in the world where we have plurality of (mainstream - KC) information and where information can be confirmed and checked. This is a radical change in attitude toward the West".
Ms. Shevtsova added: "We can't trust anything. Even with the Soviet propaganda, when they were talking with the Soviet people, there were some rules. Now, there are no rules at all. You can invent anything".
To watch the television news in Russia is to be pulled into a swirling, 24-hour vortex of alarmist proclamations of Western aggression, sinister claims of rising fascism (so illiterate Russians call the German National Socialism, and not the Italian Fascism - KC) and breathless accounts of imminent hostilities by the "illegal" Ukrainian government in Kiev, which has proved itself in recent days to be largely powerless.
Adding to the public frenzy about imminent Kiev-ordered violence, Life News, a pro-Kremlin tabloid television station, offered a bounty of 15,000 rubles, or slightly more than $ 400, for video of Ukrainian military forces mobilizing in eastern Ukraine — suggesting that such activity was secretly underway.
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
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