Sergei Mitrokhin: Rossiya 1 TV channel should be given the name of Joseph Goebbels
Press Release, 13.03.2014
The information that YABLOKO’s activists participate in courses to prepare provocateurs to wreck the Crimea’s referendum in Warsaw which appeared in a number of news agencies isn’t true. YABLOKO’s members participate in a training for press secretaries of political parties conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI). The situation in Ukraine and in particular in the Crimea is not being discussed.
The activist of the Ivanovo branch of YABLOKO Darya Karmanova spoke about the agiotage on behalf of Russia’s journalists that takes place. She said that journalists from Russiya 1 and other TV channels waited for them outside the building where the training took place. They accused Russia’s opposition of learning the “technologies of betrayal of the country”.
“International relations are a common practice for civilized countries. The hysteria which takes place around such seminars is shameful. It reminds of the fabricated spy processes of the 1930s. Journalists of the Rossiya 1 channel which should have been given the name of Joseph Goebbels a long time ago are the provocateurs, not YABLOKO’s activists,” commented YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin.
Posted: March 14th, 2014 under Understanding Russia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.