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Lavrov mocks U.S. media over intelligence-sharing reports

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday mocked U.S. news reports 

That's rich: an oligarch from a country where the media is controlled criticizing a free media.

He joked that some U.S. media were acting like communist newspapers in the former Soviet Union and not offering real news.

That's equally rich given his country has been implicated in disseminating fake news reports and also given that his country's authoritarian regime controls the media - like back in the communist (supposed communist) days. A difference between the SSR days and now is that Russian organizations can use social media and the Internet to spread fake news, making it much easier for them to try to undermine western institutions.

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"There used to be a joke in the Soviet Union that there was no news in the newspaper Pravda and no truth in the newspaper Izvestia,"

So let's criticize the media for reporting the truth, right ? That would makes sense only in Soviet Union....so far the only party which spread lies are the WH when they denied facts to the general public stating "it did never happen" when actually it did.

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