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While the US State Department is maintaining a Russian-language account about the situation in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry is having fun publishing poetry
While the US State Department maintains a Russian-language account about the situation in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry is having fun publishing informal posts on the official website and on social networks. TJournal selected several examples of how propaganda is created on the RuNet.
On March 17, Macon Phillips, coordinator of the US Bureau of International Information Programs, published a post on Twitter three times in Russian calling for people to subscribe to the “Progress for Ukraine” account , thereby conditionally verifying it.
Phillips' tweet was also duplicated by the official account of the US State Department.
RT @macon44 Do you speak Russian? Follow @StateDept 's new @ukrprogress : source that sets the record straight about #Ukraine & #Crimea .
— Department of State (@StateDept) March 17, 2014
The “Progress for Ukraine” account was created for Russian-speaking users and broadcasts the position of the State Department regarding the situation in Ukraine. Among its readers are former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov.
Kiselev on Russia-1, - the basis of our concern about professionalism grew. MASS MEDIA. http://t.co/9kOr2pO2FI
— Progress for Ukraine (@UkrProgress) March 18, 2014
One of the most frequent tags in the account is #Isolation of Russia.
Putin congratulated the Ukrainian soldiers for not using their weapons, but then allowed one of them to be shot. #Isolation of Russia
— Progress for Ukraine (@UkrProgress) March 19, 2014
On March 19, Twitter administrators published a link to an article on the teh-nomad blog, information in which was later refuted by the author himself.
88,000 more people voted in Sevastopol than live there. Those. 123% of the population. http://t.co/9LPwPDH1aG #referendum #Ukraine
— Progress for Ukraine (@UkrProgress) March 18, 2014
Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry is releasing specific comments , the rhetoric of which, judging by the reaction of bloggers, does not fit well with the idea of the official website of the ministry.
On March 17, the President of the European Council, H. Van Rompuy, requested an urgent visit to Russia. The goal is to hear first-hand the position of the Russian side regarding the crisis in and around Ukraine, as well as the vision of ways out of the increasingly deteriorating situation, ahead of the summit meeting of the European Council scheduled for the end of this week. Moscow promptly responded to this request and invited the leader of the European Union to accept it on March 19. It is truly commendable that H. Van Rompuy wanted to find out the truth about what is happening in Ukraine.
However, the President of the European Council was not allowed into Moscow. And they didn’t let their own people in. They say, why does he need to know the truth if everything has already been decided. The Ukrainian crisis has its own heroes - the Right Sector militants and the illegitimate government, which includes a number of outright fascists. There are also “guilty people” - Russia and the people of Crimea, who refused to accept the logic of the neo-Nazi putsch. Finally, there are all kinds of sanctions that are imposed regardless of what Russia has done or not.
Now a new sanctions list has appeared - those prohibited from leaving the European Union for Russia. Ironically, the first number on this list is the Chairman of the European Council, H. Van Rompuy.
And the official Facebook account of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs surprises subscribers with posts with grammatical errors, colloquial vocabulary and poetry - while non-standard posts collect significantly more likes and reposts than traditional and official ones.
The battlefield is the Internet,
Olga Zelenaya,
TJournal
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