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Russian Paper Removes Article About Soldier Wounded In Ukraine
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) ^ | April 08, 2015 | (Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)

Posted on 04/08/2015 4:34:03 PM PDT by WhiskeyX

ULAN-UDE, Russia -- Journalists at a Siberian newspaper say they spent three days using scissors to cut an article about a Russian soldier who was wounded fighting alongside pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine out of 50,000 copies of the publication.

Tank crewman Dorzhi Batonmukuyev's accounts of fighting in eastern Ukraine have added to what Kyiv and NATO say are incontrovertible evidence of direct Russian military support for the rebels in a conflict with government forces that has killed more than 6,000 people since April 2014.

Russia denies it has sent troops or weapons into Ukraine.

(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: disinformation; journalism; russia; trolls

1 posted on 04/08/2015 4:34:03 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

too late, I already read it.


2 posted on 04/08/2015 4:45:48 PM PDT by refermech
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To: refermech

Where?


3 posted on 04/08/2015 5:06:26 PM PDT by Paid_Russian_Troll
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To: WhiskeyX

I’m waiting for part 3. But why did they bother, the people that weren’t supposed to see it probably read it already online before the tools finished cutting it out of 50K papers. N/C on why they even bothered in the 1st place...they’re just as technically ignorant as our demotards.


4 posted on 04/08/2015 5:08:37 PM PDT by W. (3 Disqus sites, nytimes.com, cheezburger.com and archive.org all censor conservatives.)
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To: Paid_Russian_Troll

On this site. You have to look for it.


5 posted on 04/08/2015 5:14:05 PM PDT by refermech
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To: W.
Cutting it out by hand gives them plausible deniability. They can with a straight face tell the tribunal that they did comply with the "request" to spike the story.

It may well save their lives...

6 posted on 04/08/2015 5:40:29 PM PDT by null and void (He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded ~ Thomas Aquinas)
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To: null and void

Good point! It is an act of civil disobedience.


7 posted on 04/08/2015 11:54:32 PM PDT by Krosan
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To: W.

They were probably ordered to cut it cut by the Kemlin


8 posted on 04/09/2015 12:02:19 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: GeronL

I don’t think so. I believe they were ordered to make the article go away by Kremlin and instead of reprinting they spent 3 days cutting with scissors to comply, but let everyone know of the censorship.

This is certainly an act of civil disobedience. Subscribers of the magazine will get it with a piece cut out and they also get a message.


9 posted on 04/09/2015 2:14:42 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: Krosan

It will remind them of the Soviet days, especially the Soviet Encyclopedia


10 posted on 04/09/2015 10:02:49 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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