New cookies from Nuland: US will increase funding for anti-Russian propaganda
Washington - Kyiv, March 06 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) - The United States will officially spend $23 million more on anti-Russian propaganda in Ukraine and abroad in 2015, reports the website of the US Embassy in Kiev.
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Victoria Nuland announced that spending this year on funding Russian-language media “fighting Russian propaganda” will increase by 50%. In addition, $20 million will be spent on training journalists in Ukraine, etc. support for independent media.
“We are working against Russian propaganda together with the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting. Our goal is to intensify efforts to combat lies. This year, 49% more funds will be allocated than in 2014,” said Victoria Nuland, director of the US Office of Europe and Eurasia, in a message published on the website of the US Embassy in Kiev.
In 2015, Nuland asks to allocate $23,2 million for propaganda in Russia in Russian. It is also planned to allocate $20 million “in the area of public diplomacy to counter Russian propaganda through the training of Russian-speaking journalists; supporting civil society watchdogs and independent media; exchange programs for students and entrepreneurs; access to facts live, on the front pages of publications and on the Internet.”
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