‘Russia Today’ said foreign news outlets and Navalny’s team spread a fake video about Sunday’s deadly aircraft fire. Two days later, the network retracted the story.
Sergey Fadeichev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA On May 7, the Russian state television network RT (formerly Russia Today ) published an online article (read the original version here ) that was titled: “Fake News: Sheremetyevo ‘Dispatcher’ Video Spread by Ukrainian Bloggers and Navalny Supporters.” The report accuses “accounts from Alexey Navalny’s media network” and other “public opinion leaders,” like Radio Svoboda , Golos Ameriki , Deutsche Welle , and the bloggers Rustem Adagamov and Andrey Malgin,