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Fakes of the year
The New Times recalls the most loud scandals with Fake-Nous from power and its propagandists
Meeting Vladimir Putin with Oliver Stone Photo: Woman.ru
Helicopter, but not the same
President Putin in the film Oliver Stone, released in the summer of 2017, shows the director of the video from the phone, in which, as the Russian leader says, the work of Russian aviation is visible. It soon became clear that the personnel that Putin demonstrated are identical to the 2009 video , in which American troops attack terrorists in Afghanistan.
Photo: YouTube.com
The voices of the pilots who speak Russian in the presidential video were taken from a record of three years ago: this is a record of the negotiations of the pilots of Ukrainian military helicopters during their blow to the Donetsk airport captured by the separatists at the end of May 2014.
After the scandal erupted, the Kremlin said that the film for the president was provided to the Ministry of Defense. According to RBC sources, Putin representatives turned to the military department directly to the military, and prepared it in the General Staff. Oliver Stone himself continued to deny the version of the forgery: “He took out the phone and showed us it. We took it off. He said it was. Why should he lie? "
Mobile game like evidence
In the fall, the story of fakes from the Ministry of Defense found its continuation. In November, representatives of the military department published on social networks data that was submitted as “undeniable confirmation of the US Closing United States, which is prohibited in the Russian Federation ISIS*. The text was accompanied by pictures in which trucks are visible, which allegedly moved under the guise of Americans. The military department dated the pictures on November 9 and claimed that they were taken in the vicinity of the city of Abu Kemal in Syria.
Users of social networks quickly found out that screenshots from the AC-130 GUNSHIP Simulator mobile game were demonstrated as evidence. Other pictures from the publication exposing the United States turned out to be fakes : they were taken from the video of the fighting forces of Iraq in September 2016 near the Iraqi city of Falludge.
Users of social networks began in response a joke mob “in support” of the military department: they began to demonstrate screenshots from computer games as evidence of the success of the Russian authorities
After the military department of the Russian Federation was convicted of lies, it deleted Twit with this information and edited the post on Facebook. The Ministry of Defense said that the screenshot was attached by mistake, and the perpetrator was found - they turned out to be a civilian employee. Users of social networks began in response to the joke mob “in support” of the military department: they began to demonstrate screenshots from computer games as evidence of the success of the Russian authorities.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the scandal as follows: “Mistakes happen, nothing to worry about, they are correctly adjusted, which was done to the Ministry of Defense.”
Friend of USA No. 1
and Osama bin Laden photo: site.ru
In November 2017, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry said on the air of the Russia-1 channel that the founder of the al-Qaeda terrorist group, which was banned in Russia and in the world of Al-Caida, was at a reception at the White House. “Remember these fantastic, enchanting photos, as Ben Laden was accepted in the White House. This is classic lobbying in the real sense of the word, ”Zakharova was indignant at the entire multimillion -dollar television department. As an illustration of her words, a photo was demonstrated where the former Secretary of State (as well as the rival of Donald Trump in the elections) Hillary Clinton presses the hand of terrorist No. 1.
Hillary Clinton presses his hand
Shubkhashish Mukherjergi Photo: Site.ru
This fake was quickly exposed in American media - in the original photo, Clinton presses the hand of the Indian performer Shubhashish Muherji in 2004. And this happened not in the White House, but at a reception at the hotel. And the linden collage with Clinton and the terrorist was distributed by Trump's supporters during the presidential race in the United States.
When the forgery was discovered, the official speaker of the Foreign Ministry made a statement on Facebook , and also explained its position in the 60 minutes program on the Russia-1 channel .
It is noteworthy that this statement was soon refuted in the American media. Ben Laden himself said that he had never received any help from the Americans. There is no reliable information about the opposite.
The linden collage with Clinton and the terrorist was distributed by Trump supporters during the presidential race in the United States. When the forgery was discovered, the official speaker of the Foreign Ministry said that she was not talking about the terrorist himself, but about his colleagues and associates
Fake sacrifices
In the fall of 2017, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova, during her visit to Chechnya, met with dummy people from the “Firing List”. This list was published by the “New Gazeta” in the resonant publication on the persecution of residents of the republic for their sexual orientation, although formally law enforcement officers call them involved in the militants. "New" published the names of 27 citizens who were secretly and without trial were executed in the republic.
In Chechnya, Moskalkov held a number of meetings with local human rights activists, officials and residents. At a press conference, she said that she managed to see two defendants in the list: Shamkhan Yusupov and Mahma (Mokhma) Muskiev. They are alive and healthy, and therefore the list of "new" is not true.
The Human Rights Society "Memorial" found out that the forgery occurred: the Chechen security officials brought the Ombudsman to demonstrate the non -missing Muskiev and Yusupov, but their brothers. According to Memorial, the relatives of the dead and missing were threatened with reprisals if they turn to Moskalkova.
According to the results of meetings in the republic, Moskalkova herself said that the Chechen authorities provided her with information on each person from the list. Five were dead, and in 18 cases, cases of loss were instituted.
The legality of Beria and the openness of Andropov
The culmination of the Year of the Lie was a software interview with the FSB director of Alexander Bortnikov to the 100th anniversary of the state security organs. According to experts, it was replete with mistakes, distortion and frank untruth. In particular, the director of the 1930s is justified by the mass repressions of the 1930s by the fact that there were real plans to displace and kill Stalin, the conspirators were connected with foreign intelligence services. Mass political repressions, according to Bortnikov, ended after the decision in 1938 of the Decree "On Arrests, Prosecutorial Supervision and Conducting the Investigation". Lavrenty Beria, who was appointed to the People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs, conducted personnel “cleaning”, having expelled the “careerists of previous calls”, “most of them suffered a well -deserved punishment after Yezhov’s shift and shooting.”
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In fact, mass landings and executions continued until Stalin’s death in 1953, and the reason for them indicated by Bortnikov simply did not exist. It has long been proven that there was no conspiracy against Stalin, the historian of the special services Nikita Petrov noted in an interview with NT, this turned out when the participants in Moscow processes were rehabilitated.
Bortnikov also claimed that under Andropov, the KGB headed for openness for the company, many documents were declassified, "the emphasis has shifted to the preventive and preventive measures and administrative measures." This is a lie: under Andropov, nothing was declassified, Petrov points out. But there was an enhanced struggle against ideological opponents. It was under Andropov that there were persecution and expulsion from the country of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a link to the bitter academician Andrei Sakharov.
In the past year, the Russian ruling regime did not notice the centenary of the revolution, but widely celebrated the “centenary of the title special service-the corporation of Russia's owners,” Andrei Kolesnikov, a permanent Columnist of NT, notes in a column about the results of 2017.
* IG, ISIS, “ICMAMSIC State” - an organization prohibited in the Russian Federation as a terrorist
** "Al-Qaeda"-an organization prohibited in the Russian Federation as a terrorist