Watering down Russian aggression

Ukraine Today covers an op-ed in The Conversationist UK-based ezine which points out some inaccurate terms misrepresenting Russia's war on Ukraine in foreign media.

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22:10, 25 August 2015

"The war in Ukraine, we are often told, is a "civil war" involving "rebels" fighting the central government in Kyiv. Such restrictive, inaccurate terms greatly misrepresent the conflict..." Ukraine Today reports.

The crisis is represented too often as entirely internal to Ukraine, the authors say.

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