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Kremlin-backed RT mocks journalists who fear incident undermines trust in media
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/31/arkady-babchenkos-fake-plays-into-the-hands-of-moscow
Thanks to Arkady Babchenko’s stunt, dismissing fake news just became a whole lot harder in Russia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/opinion/arkady-babchenko-journalist-Russia.html
As a Russianist and one-time Moscow correspondent, I am periodically called upon for an instant response to the latest – alas, usually nefarious – deed attributed to Russia. A sadly recurrent topic has been the murder or mysterious death of a journalist critical of the Kremlin. This week it was the killing of Arkady Babchenko, gunned down, we were told, in the stairwell of the block of flats where he lived in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital where he had sought safety from his enemies in Russia.
Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, arrived in Pyongyang on Thursday on a mission to get Moscow back into the diplomatic fray surrounding North Korea and, ultimately, boost Russia’s economic and security standing in the region.
Dans sa chronique, Alain Frachon, éditorialiste au « Monde », analyse l’utilisation poussée du mensonge par les dirigeants des deux plus grandes puissances nucléaires de la planète.
On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted this: "Not that it matters but I never fired James Comey because of Russia! The Corrupt Mainstream Media loves to keep pushing that narrative, but they know it is not true!"
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/31/politics/donald-trump-russia/index.html