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Russian media fall for Latvia warship April Fool
The Baltic Times ^ | 2015-04-02 | from wire reports and TBT staff

Posted on 04/09/2015 4:17:06 AM PDT by WhiskeyX

Various Russian media outlets on Wednesday fell for an April Fools' joke news story published by the EUObserver, which stated that France has decided to deliver a Mistral-class warship originally meant for Russia to Latvia instead.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Russia
KEYWORDS: france; latvia; mistral; russia

1 posted on 04/09/2015 4:17:06 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

Link bad or article removed


2 posted on 04/09/2015 5:23:54 AM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

The link works perfectly for me using multiple computers, XP and Win7, FireFox, IE11, and IE8.

Perhaps you’re being blocked from the TLD?


3 posted on 04/09/2015 5:45:19 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

When I hit your link, it brings up a page for Baltic Times that lists dozens of Baltic area articles, but yours is not one of them.

Using Apple iPhone, then iPad.

I’m not a programmer. Not sure why.


4 posted on 04/09/2015 6:02:39 AM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

Another approach to the webpage is to: (1) go to the home page; (2) select Latvia; (3) go to the search button and search box, and use April Fool as the search term. The search result is a link to the article.


5 posted on 04/09/2015 6:16:33 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

Thanks.


6 posted on 04/09/2015 6:23:11 AM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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