No Mistrals For Putin

Today's order of 36 Rafale aircraft to France from India, proved once more the fails of russian propaganda.  A few month ago, in order to convince french people and the world that France had all interests in delivering the Mistral to Russia, russian media propaganda spent a lot of energy in spreading fear and lies in case of non delivery. Comparison between russian lies and nowadays reality: Russian propaganda: 1)  France would not be seen as reliable  -> India would cancel its order of Rafale aircrafts (126 aircrafts for a record deal of 24 billion euros). Even better, Sputnik news announced less than one month ago that India officially declared that the Rafale deal was cancelled because of the Mistral deal. 2) STX (builder of the war ships) would lose a huge amount of money. 3) STX would lose contracts. 4) The result would be huge unemployment for STX and St Nazaire shipyards., 2500 jobs at stake. Vs reality: 1) Indian prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Russia Beyond the Headline reached 10,162 million readers around the world through its supplements in newspapers' hard copies in 2013. Everybody knows Russia Today is Kremlin's voice while most people ignore they are reading russian propaganda in supplements in the most famous newspapers' hard copies or that the newly created Sputnik news agency is to become the most influent propaganda machine. Researching everyday about the Mistral deal, we have come to know better the Russian propaganda news machine as we have to read it everyday to get its disinformation to better fight it. Here are the few things we learned and that are not often covered by the media: Russia Beyond the Headlines The most famous newspapers around the world regularly publish a supplement, Russia Beyond the Headlines (RBTH) directly financed by the Kremlin and designed to spread the russian vision of the world: The Washington Post (United States), The New York Times (United States), The Wall ...