December 14, 2010

CNN presented riots in Moscow as "protests over time zones"

CNN FAKE REPORT
On 12 December CNN showed video of the riots in Moscow with following comments: “Russian protests targeting time zones”. According to CNN, 3 000 people protested against changing time zones in some eastern city of Russia...

In reality the riots caused by the death of football fan happened in Moscow on December, 11. The video shown by CNN had been taken at well recognized central square of Moscow city.


A piece of newscaster’s text accompanied the video of clashes in Moscow:
<….> Chanting "give us our time back," thousands of people in eastern Russia Saturday protested proposed changes to the country's time zones, state media reported.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has proposed time zone reforms that would further cut the time difference between the region and Moscow, the state-run RIA-Novosti news agency reported.
Already, similar reforms implemented earlier this year have led to dark winter skies in the middle of the day in the region, the news agency said.
More than 3,000 protesters flocked to the central square in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, RIA-Novosti said.
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Is that just a human’s foolishness or black PR of very bad quality, I wonder?

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