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  • BELARUS (Revolution?) Interview with exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya

    08/23/2020 6:24:12 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 5 replies
    BBC News ^ | Aug 2020 | Andy Smythe, Jean Mackenzie
    Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was in the running to become President of Belarus. She was forced to flee the country after Alexander Lukashenko declared a landslide victory, though many believe she won the election instead. In her first interview from exile, the opposition leader told the BBC she does not see herself as a President but as a symbol of freedom and change. She urges protesters to carry on, warning that if they step back now they would become “slaves” to the regime. She spoke to the BBC’s Europe Correspondent Jean Mackenzie, a month after they first met in the run up...
  • Russian State TV Spreads Crazy Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories [Blames President Trump.]

    02/08/2020 4:00:10 PM PST · by familyop · 54 replies
    RFE/RL (Kyiv, Ukraine) ^ | February 7, 2020 | Ray Furlong
    Russia's state TV Channel One has broadcast conspiracy theories blaming U.S. President Donald Trump or "international corporations" for the coronavirus. The report was broadcast on the main evening news show watched by millions on February 5.
  • Russia's Missing Article: Censorship, Prudence, Or A Win For Moscow's Troll Army?

    04/11/2015 5:26:03 AM PDT · by WhiskeyX · 2 replies
    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) ^ | April 09, 2015 | Mark Krutov
    MOSCOW -- For three straight days last weekend, the employees of the Novaya Buryatia newspaper in southern Siberia used scissors to remove an article from 50,000 copies of the weekly before it could be distributed. The same article, which had been posted a few days earlier on the paper's website, was pulled down. (It can be seen in an archived file here.) As a result, an article that was intended to clear up some mysteries involving alleged Russian military participation in the fighting in eastern Ukraine has itself become the center of a mystery: Is this a case of Soviet-style...