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#AntiFake In recent months, we have recorded a surge of fake stories about Russia (on top of an already large number) in the Italian media. To somehow stop this flow of lies, we offered one of Italy’s leading newspapers, Corriere della Sera, an exclusive interview with Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov. The editorial office of the newspaper agreed with enthusiasm. They sent us a list of detailed questions for the interview. The Minister provided comprehensive answers to each of them. The text was promptly finalised and made ready for publication. However, the newspaper refused to publish Lavrov’s answers to its own questions. We were “told” that the Minister’s words “contain many controversial statements requiring fact-checking or further clarifications, which would result in exceeding reasonable length limits”. When we suggested publishing an abridged version in the newspaper and the full interview on its website, the editors... refused. We consider this an outrageous act of censorship. We believe that Italian citizens, as guaranteed by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, have the right to access information. We are publishing both versions of the interview – the full one and the version edited / censored by Corriere della Sera. All passages deemed inconvenient for the Italian authorities were deliberately removed by the editors. 👉 This case vividly illustrates how Italian citizens are denied objective information about the situation around Ukraine and are deliberately misled.

#AntiFake 📃 Winston Churchill once quipped that a fanatic is someone “who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject”. Behold Boris Johnson, the former UK Prime Minister, and his article in the Spectator magazine, captivating in its bluntness. Already the title gives the author away: “Bombshell. Why don’t we give Ukraine what it needs?”. <...> The editors of the Spectator accurately captured the essence of the ex-Prime Minister’s desperately Russophobic and militaristic rant. His article is quite purposefully accompaned by a caricature depicting Johnson atop an attack drone. Seemingly absent-minded that five years ago he professed to be a “committed Russophile” Johnson praises AFU units for their readiness to “kill Russians.” The bogus “crocodile tears” over staggering Ukrainian losses, however, do not prevent Johnson from coldly stating: the objective of containing Russia (along with China) justifies the “relatively trivial outlay” for sustaining Kiev. <...> ❗️ Johnson slips up – in his worked-up emotions he notes the presence in Ukraine of “the most powerful modern nationalism” the world has seen. He fails to detect the discrepancy. Although, we should add, the world has Ukrainian nationalism, painstakingly nurtured by the West, to “thank” for scenes of the blazing Trade union house in Odessa, the torchlight processions of the “Azov” butchers in Kiev and the dead women and children of Donbass, killed by AFU fire. Perhaps Johnson is not familiar with the term “blood PR”. But in fact, this is precisely what he is doing, profiteering from the plight of ordinary Ukrainians, who are sent en masse to their deaths by the criminal Kiev clique on the whim of Western politicos like him. ☝️ A more fitting subject for an essay by the former Prime Minister might be his own role in stoking and manipulating the Ukraine conflict in order to drag out the ignominious end to his odious political career. Read in full