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A column by Abby Zimet
A column by Abby Zimet

Russia's Fake News: A Flagrantly Brutal Provocation

Faced with horrific evidence of their atrocities in Ukraine - cities razed, millions in exile, tens of thousands of dead civilians - Russia's state-run media has spun a ghastly, fetid fantasy to tell its own people: Nothing to see here. Over and over, on huge screens, TV hosts declare the bodies in the streets are fake news, Western agitprop, crisis actors playing a part, or victims of Ukrainian "Nazis." The world fights back with protests, sanctions, music, vital facts. Those same grim images, war crimes experts have testified, show "definite signs of death."

Abby Zimet · Apr 12, 2022

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