On February 25, 2022 in the early morning, hours after Vladimir Putin's armed forces invaded Ukraine, the Russian news agency Tass, owned and financed by the Kremlin to the tune of tens of millions of rubles a year , drew his first dispatch:
“The clashes between the Russian army are not played against the Ukrainian armed forces, but against the gangs of drug addicts and neo-Nazis present in the country.”
Consistent with Putin's narrative, Tas wrongly asserted that civilians would
"under no circumstances"
be threatened.
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Built 113 years ago under Tsar Nicolas II, Tass, called the Soviet Union's Telegraph Agency after the revolution, is today seen as the armed wing of the Kremlin in the battle for information.
It is considered the main source
of "official information"
in the country, ahead of the other state agencies, RIA Novosti and Interfax
.
Since March 4 and the introduction of a new law, known
as “on fake news”
, the media…
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