SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS — Together with expressions of sympathy for the victims and pledges to carry the perpetrators to justice, Russia’s response to Friday’s lethal assault on a live performance corridor has been an across-the-board marketing campaign of disinformation. The Kremlin and its surrogates spent the weekend suggesting – with no proof – that Ukrainians or People, or each, had been responsible for the worst terrorist assault in Russia in twenty years.
As quickly as Saturday morning, sure information had emerged in regards to the raid on the Crocus Live performance Corridor on Moscow’s outskirts: At the very least 137 individuals had been useless and greater than 150 others injured; gunmen had stormed the sector, shot at concertgoers, and set fireplace to the principle constructing; the terrorist group ISK (Islamic State Khorasan) had claimed accountability – a declare U.S. intelligence stated was reputable – and the group launched movies taken by its operatives through the assault.
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