It might sound like a travesty of EU values on free press, but serious people are saying fake Russian journalists should be blacklisted.
One man calling for it is Yevhen Fedchenko.
He’s a teacher of journalism at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine and a journalist of 20 years’ experience. He’s also the man behind stopfake.org, a website which debunks Russian media lies on Ukraine.
“We need to act rapidly and firmly”, he told EUobserver.
“I rea...
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