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Girl 'killed in Ukraine' never existed
BBC ^ | 8 April 2015 | Natalia Antelava and Abdujalil Abdurasulov

Posted on 04/08/2015 3:47:51 AM PDT by WhiskeyX

[VIDEO] The BBC's Natalia Antelava and Abdujalil Abdurasulov investigate the story of a 10-year-old girl reported killed in the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine - and discover that all was not as it seemed.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: disinformation; informationwar; russia; ukraine
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1 posted on 04/08/2015 3:47:51 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

Notice how the two women doing gardening were afraid to give straight answers. The older one told the younger to not speak (although they both knew Russian TV is lying).

Russian controlled areas are going straight back to the old “when in prison you howl with the wolves” and the unlucky people recognize they are in prison now.


2 posted on 04/08/2015 4:36:50 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: Krosan

Speaking of “howling,” do you remember the story a week or so back that polling showed the majority of these residents want to stay with Russia? Answering “yes” sure tops being dragged out of your home and being beaten on the street.


3 posted on 04/08/2015 5:41:49 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

I know this under duress state very well. Phone poll in North Korea will have 99.9999% say that the new Kim is the son of God. You’ll also have certain people in the USA quoting this poll as their argument and ignoring the relevant circumstances.


4 posted on 04/08/2015 5:50:28 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: 1rudeboy

If they want to be in Russia, they need to move to Russia. Otherwise, we may as well give SoCal to Mexico.


5 posted on 04/08/2015 5:53:54 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

That’s EXACTLY what I used to tell the pro-Putin nuts here at FR. It did no good. They refused to see the obvious.


6 posted on 04/08/2015 6:01:08 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: 1rudeboy

To add something about topic of Crimea. Nationalization of businesses goes on full steam there. Russian forces raised a gangster to power and gave him a blank check in what he can confiscate from people. Of course people are afraid of being put in certain lists.

Gangsters in charge have gone into excesses of confiscating a $40 million movie studio from *Russian citizens living in Russia*. I am not saying this wrong is less wrong than others. I am saying it describes the frenzy that goes on there. If this is happening then you can imagine how defenseless a native Crimean Tatar is.


7 posted on 04/08/2015 6:04:54 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: Krosan

...”Gangsters in charge have gone into excesses of confiscating a $40 million “....

Sounds like Obama’s Washington doesn’t it!


8 posted on 04/08/2015 6:07:12 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww
whataboutism

You Soviets are masters at it.

9 posted on 04/08/2015 6:11:50 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: caww

Just when I think, “Surely this person has reached and encapsulates the limits of Internet tedium” you go and push the boundary even further. How about putting that into proper syntax, form, and grammar so that I can at least understand what you are saying before I dismiss it?

You read like a gimpzoid teenager splashing spit onto the monitor. Don’t you ever have a point beyond giving your fingers some exercise by dancing them randomly over the keyboard? You wouldn’t know Up from Down if you had three guesses. Anyway, who was talking to you or even taking you under consideration? As Robert Wilensky said: “We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.”

You are a bore, and a very dull one at that. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers. Maybe you wouldn’t read like such a pathetic loser if you had enough brains to find water after falling down a well; if your weren’t so grossly fat that you have to put your belt on with a boomerang, or if you didn’t have a face that would give Freddie Kruger nightmares. No, come to think of it, you would.

You’re a message board freak. I know it’s hard to accept the truth, but the truth it is, and accept it, you must.


10 posted on 04/08/2015 6:40:21 AM PDT by Krosan
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11 posted on 04/08/2015 6:45:34 AM PDT by caww
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To: Krosan

U MAD BRO?


12 posted on 04/08/2015 6:46:46 AM PDT by McGruff (I'm thinkin)
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To: McGruff

I see the FRussians have arrived.


13 posted on 04/08/2015 6:48:05 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Krosan

Yep. They know something bad is going to happen if they speak up.


14 posted on 04/08/2015 6:49:53 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: 1rudeboy

The Myth of Russian-speaking Regions

http://ukrainianweek.com/Politics/115434

Media swallowed 5 Russian Myths

http://ukraine-truth.com/2015/01/media-swallowed-5-russian-myths-helped-putin-ukraine/


15 posted on 04/08/2015 6:53:57 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: McGruff

Russian Neo-Nazi's fighting against Ukraine

16 posted on 04/08/2015 6:54:37 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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17 posted on 04/08/2015 7:00:09 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Do you have that in Cyrillic?


18 posted on 04/08/2015 7:02:25 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: WhiskeyX

Landmines are killing a lot of people over there too.

http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/2015/03/children-killed-and-injured-by-landmines-in-eastern-ukraine/#.VSUyFfBcr7A


19 posted on 04/08/2015 7:07:28 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: McGruff

The article starts off...

...”Information war has been a huge part of the Ukraine conflict, with both sides accusing the other of manipulating the media”.....

I haven’t seen a single conflict that they all don’t do this...not one... including the citizens. But it’s disturbing when they use kids bodies or stories of kids as something it’s not. That goes beyond propaganda.


20 posted on 04/08/2015 7:08:13 AM PDT by caww
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