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European media spreads fake news about Russian threat, getting tangled in lies — GFCN

Global Fact-Checking Network expert Ioana Jaleel emphasized that fakes about the Russian threat spread by the European press are confusing and very primitive

MOSCOW, September 30. /TASS/. Fakes about the Russian threat spread by the European press are confusing and very primitive, Romanian blogger, Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN) expert Ioana Jaleel told TASS.

"And regarding Russia, we (in Romania - TASS) had many," she noted. "In the past year, they were talking a lot about Russia's military power, saying that it's not what it's believed to be, that the Russians are going, for example, to the front on horseback because they don't have vehicles anymore."

The Romanian expert said that she watches with great interest as "the same media agencies one day say that Russia is done, it doesn't have any military power anymore, and after that on the second day they say that Russia will attack us in five years, we will die if we don't protect ourselves, if we don't accelerate the militarization."

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