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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Russian media on Thursday that former Secretary of State John Kerry approved of Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula, believing the residents were overwhelmingly in favor of “reuniting” with Russia. According to Lavrov, Kerry’s main criticism of Russia’s actions was to suggest holding another referendum to reinforce the legitimacy of annexation. Russia’s RT.com summarized Lavrov’s comments to the RBK news service: I won’t reveal a big secret if I say that John Kerry was telling me in April 2014: ‘Everything is clear. Everything happened the way the Crimean people...

Hacker collective Anonymous has disabled several Russian government websites including the state-controlled "Russia Today" news service. Hackers identifying with the Anonymous collective announced they had launched cyber operations that briefly took down RT.com, as well as the websites of the Kremlin, the Russian government and the Russian defence ministry websites. RT.com confirmed the attack took place, saying it slowed some websites down while taking others offline for "extended periods of time". RT's coverage of the situation in Ukraine has been overwhelmingly from a pro-Russian perspective, showing fireworks and cheerful celebrations in the newly occupied territories. In the UK, MPs have...

The NY Times published an opinion piece today which points out that Russian propaganda is getting a helping hand from some US corporations. Before you tune out, this is not another conspiracy theory about Russia’s overwhelming influence on social media. The author is talking about Kremlin propaganda outlets like RT and Sputnik.RT (formerly Russia Today) is such a dumpster fire of Russian propaganda that it was required to register as a foreign agent by the Department of Justice. This is the network that gave a puff-piece interview to two FSB agents who attempted to assassinate Sergei Skripal in England....