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Russian state-owned media, such as Russia Today (RT), Sputnik and Russian national TV position themselves as reliable alternatives to what they label “main stream media”. The use of international commentators and experts by these Russian media does not necessarily reflect the depths of their expertise, rather whether their positioning is in line with pro-Kremlin narratives.
Readers of the Disinformation Review will for example recall the recent appearance of a Belgian commentator in a Russian talk show where he shouted that “thousands of women are being raped every day” on the streets of Brussels. When not appearing on Russian national TV, the same commentator has organised events with a former leader of the Ku-Klux clan and a former leaders of the British National Party. In a piece from Sputnik, he gives an “exclusive interview” in the role of a “Belgian political scientist and director of geopolitical research centre”. Here he repeats disinformation about the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine, claiming that “there are facts that the Russians did not do it” and “that there is proof that it wasn’t Russia”. The Belgian example is just one of many where Russian state-controlled media systematically invite contributions from far-right commentators from European countries – people with very limited impact in the communities they come from. Many of these “experts” are also invited to rally in Russia around shared far-right political agendas.
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