{"id":14014,"date":"2018-10-08T08:03:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T08:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=14014"},"modified":"2020-05-14T12:57:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T12:57:24","slug":"how-russian-journalists-filmed-reports-on-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine-and-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/how-russian-journalists-filmed-reports-on-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine-and-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"How Russian journalists filmed reports on chemical weapons in Ukraine and Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

InformNapalm editor\u2019s note<\/strong><\/em>:<\/em>\u00a0This is a\u00a0<\/em>blog<\/em>\u00a0post by<\/em>\u00a0Kyril Mefodiev<\/a><\/em> that disassembles directives, according to which Russian propagandists in 2013<\/em>\u00a0planned a series of stories about chemical laboratories.<\/em>\u00a0In 2018, the Russian intelligence officers “Boshirov”<\/em>\u00a0and “Petrov”<\/em>\u00a0brought the issue of chemical weapons into a trend again,<\/em>\u00a0and Russian propagandists had to raise new conspiracy theories to the height of the Salisbury cathedral’s steeple.<\/em>\u00a0But everything new is well-forgotten old.<\/em><\/p>\n

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After attempting to poison former Russian intelligence officer in Britain, Russian media began to issue a series of reports regarding the possible origin of the chemical agent used in the poisoning. As is usually the case with Russians, all but Russia have been guilty of “Novichok” production.\u00a0The Czech Republic, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and the United States came up as possible place of its origin.\u00a0Well, nobody has forgotten about the “mean British special services”, which, as usual, wanted to humiliate Russia.\u00a0It is quite interesting to follow these reports of the Russian mass media, especially knowing how these reports are being made.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian Cyber Alliance (UCA) activists handed to InformNapalm volunteers data from the mailbox of Russian journalist AleksandrRogatkin who works for Russia 24 TV channel and films reports for Dmitry Kiselev\u2019s program VestiNedeli (Weekly News). Also, he has his own show Spetsialny Korrespondent (Special Correspondent). In 2014, he made several pompous films about the war in the Donbas against Ukraine. Rogatkin is one of the authors of the “crucified boy” fake.\u00a0In 2014, he spent several months with his crew in the Donbas and filmed Donbass in Fire<\/a>.\u00a0For that, soon, in December 2014, he was awarded the Man of the Year prize; Kiselev’s \u00a0Vesti Nedeli<\/a> ran almost 10-minute report about Rogatkin\u2019s award.<\/p>\n

Rogatkin from the first days was on the Maidan, filmed in Crimea, and then provided direct reports from Luhansk and Donetsk.\u00a0However, Rogatkin showed interest in Ukraine even earlier.<\/p>\n

In the summer and autumn of 2013, Rogatkin and his crew filmed a report for Vesti Nedeli program on chemical laboratories in Georgia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n

It was at that time that Russian channels broadcast reports on the destruction of chemical weapons from Syria at Russian plants<\/p>\n