Inside the Kremlin’s hall of mirrors | Peter Pomerantsev | Russia’s Round 2: A New Conflict in Eastern Europe?
Russia | The Guardian Inside the Kremlin’s hall of mirrors | Peter Pomerantsev Thursday, April 9th 1:00am · Peter Pomerantsev · russia europe world news vladimir putin media television & radio Shared by 1 person T he thing that Margo Gontar found easiest to deal with were the dead children. They were all over her computer screens – on news sites and social media – next to headlines that blamed the deaths on Ukrainian fascist gangs trained by Nato. It was early 2014, Crimea had just been taken over by soldiers who seemed Russian and sounded Russian but who were wearing no national insignia, and who Vladimir Putin , with a little grin, had just told the whole world were not Russian at all. Now eastern Ukraine was being taken over by separatists. Gontar was trying to fight back. She could usually locate the original images of the dead with a simple Google search. Some of the photographs were actually from other, older war