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Piece on Russian disinformation campaign practicing what it preaches against, says letter writer
Mar. 6, 2019
Re: “Canada is a target of Russia’s disinformation. Let’s be ready,” (The Hill Times, Jan. 30, p. 10). In this article, Alexandra Chyczij, the national president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, misrepresents the information contained in a report on the Ukrainian Canadian diaspora broadcast by the Russian national TV channel, Russia 1, on Jan. 13, and also paints a false picture that Canada is under attack from “Russian propaganda.”
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