The Russian media has made one thing clear in the aftermath of the destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17: it generates a view of the world corresponding to the political needs of the Kremlin. Yet even the Kremlin spin machine has been incapable of coming up with a plausible account of this tragedy that could deflect responsibility from the Putin administration’s policies and actions.
So far, Russian official statements have been limited to generalized finger-pointing at the Ukrainian leadership for supposedly fomenting conflict and protests that “nothing has been proven yet.” As a result, the state-controlled mainstream Russian media has …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
