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Putin secretly awarded 300 Russian journalists for their propaganda. (English)

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Channel: NewsFromUkraine · 2014 · People & Blogs

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Putin has secretly showered awards and medals on more than 300 media workers for their "objective" coverage of events in Crimea. The awards went to people working for Kremlin-friendly media outlets such as Channel One and RT, Russia's main foreign-language propaganda network.

Under the Decree #269 "Of the conferment of the Russian Federation", according to "Vedomosti", was signed on April 22, but it was not reported on public. In the "documents" section on the official website of the President #268 is the Decree of 21 April on the rehabilitation of repressed peoples of Crimea, and then immediately goes to Decree #270 dated 22 April on certain personnel matters to the States. This means that the Decree #269 is "not in the public domain", was explained to "Vedomosti" in the presidential press service. 

​According to the Decree media workers are awarded with "high professionalism and objectivity in the reporting of events in the Republic of Crimea". This was told to "Vedomosti" by a man who has seen the document. According to him, 300 people were awarded, including about 90 correspondents. The scale of the awards is unprecedented, said the official: for example, after the events of the 2008 South Ossetia war, President Dmitry Medvedev has awarded only 11 journalists. According to the source, around a hundred award recipients represent the VGTRK, 60-channel one, a few dozen — TV channels NTV, Russia Today and holding Life News. There is no one from channel "Rain" and "Echo of Moscow". 

Only one recipient interviewed by "Vedomosti" newspaper, deputy director of the RTRS state broadcasting company Viktor Pinchuk, admitted being aware of the awards.

News of the awards comes as state-run Russian media are under fire for what critics denounce as an aggressive disinformation campaign to discredit prodemocracy protests in Ukraine and justify Moscow's backing of separatist rebels in the country.

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