Uus Venemaa valede kokkuvõte EEAS East StratCom'ilt. Kogu nn. "uurimine" on russofoobia avaldus, nn. "tõendeid" võidi juurde tekitada Photoshop'iga jne.
The MH17 Investigation is Russophobia!
During the last week, pro-Kremlin media continued their accusations and far-fetched conspiracy theories regarding the investigation into the murder of 298 civilians on board flight MH17.
According to the outlet zavtra.ru, the whole “polemic” around the MH17 case is nothing but an attack “on the very existence of Russia”; in response, Russian patriots should now stress the glory of Russian history, like the victory in World War II, or sending a man to space (
http://bit.ly/2dBYnHr).
A similar message was sent out by chief Kremlin propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov (
http://bit.ly/2e5fzXF). According to Kiselyov, the Joint Investigative Team simply said that “Russia is to blame for everything” (although the JIT is yet to disclose the names of those who gave the orders:
http://bbc.in/2dmfMTe), did not present any evidence apart from photographs and social media posts (the prosecutors in fact e.g. played recordings from intercepted phone calls during their news conference and quoted multiple eye-witnesses), and their imagination should be envied by the scriptwriters of Hollywood blockbusters.
The website of Kiselyov’s TV channel also claimed that the image evidence could have been faked using Photoshop (
http://bit.ly/2cZ7CNE).
Strangely, none of these channels explained whether the JIT also faked Russian TV reports from the day of the tragedy, when e.g. Lifenews reported that a plane had been shot down by pro-Kremlin fighters in the East of Ukraine.
For a more detailed elaboration of pro-Kremlin disinformation on MH17, see our recent Disinformation Digest:
http://eepurl.com/chQYq1). One of the most outrageous disinformation attempts mentioned in the Digest claimed that there was actually no shooting down, and that the whole tragedy was staged. Pro-Kremlin media now repeat a similar pattern regarding the recent bombing of a humanitarian convoy in Syria, as did RIA Novosti (
http://bit.ly/2dwZ6Z2), and Sputnik (
http://bit.ly/2dMxltv) - calling the bombing “a well-prepared hoax”.
