Black PR from Russia - Internet provocation

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Reference: Polish embassy, Kiev http://www.polska.com.ua/ua/ambasada/info/2464/


Translation from:
http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/swiat/1,34180,2607360.html


Serious, Russian government▓s Internet site publishes anti Ukrainian article from Polish "Tygodnik Powszechny". But this is actually a deceit. Boss of the site doesn▓t want to tell who drew him into that.
Marian Kaluski, author of article published yesterday on site InoSMI.ru under the title: "Let▓s honestly talk about Ukraine", thinks that in Polish interest is Ukraine weak, broken and divided. According to Kaluski Ukrainians have been deceived by opposition▓s leader Wiktor Yuschchenko and will not know democracy, nor wealth, and Ukraine "will surely not share Iraq▓s fate ".
InoSMI.ru is well known site among Russian journalists, which publishes translations from international press. It is important source of information for Russian media about what their foreign colleagues think and write about Russia. It belongs to RIA-Nowosti agency, closely related to Russian Foreign Ministry.
Yesterday InoSMI published Kaluski▓s translation from "Tygodnik Powszechny■ as the most important text of the day. Make no doubt about it, the site placed "Tygodnik▓s" logo, too (it disappeared later in the evening).
To editorial office of "Tygodnik" in Krakow called alarmed readers from Ukraine. Ukraininas are surprised that known for its Ukraine▓s liking "Tygodnik" √ rewarded recently by the Ukraininas themselves for its coverages about Orange Revolution could publish extremely anti Ukrainian article.
The problem is that Kaluski▓s article has never been published in "Tygodnik". Somebody only threw it into Internet forum of this Polish weekly. In fact Kaluski is a right-wing journalist living in Australia, who publishes over estreme rightist sites. On one of these pages, Now on-line, his article has been published, presented now in Russia as an article from "Tygodnik Powszechny".
Kaluski takes an occasion to condemn all elites ruling Poland after 1989. He writes: "Warsaw government [after 1989] surely under White House▓s pressure and partly Brussels made Ukraine a strategic partner for Poland. This partnership can be called: All for Ukraine and nothing for Poland ".
Poland √ as Russian readers may learn from the article of known and respected "Tygodnik Powszechny" √ is now under American boot.
USA's pressure Kaluski explains Aleksander Kwasniewski, Lech Walesa and Jerzy Buzek visits to Kiev during the Orange Revolution. "How should we explain this invasion of Polish politicians over Ukraine?! - he wonders. -"Profound wish to make Ukraine a democratic and wealthy state while the same people never gave Poland democracy and ran millions of their co-citizens into poverty".
Poland should - according to Kaluski - support Ukraine's split.
Chief editor of InoSMI Jaroslav Ogniev has a very good opinion among journalists in Russia, according to our interlocutors - somebody must have drew him into that.
- It looks like disinformation work of Gleb Pavlovsky, ideology strategist of Kremlin and main specialst of black propaganda - says anonymously Polish expert for Russian matters. Pavlovsky managed Russian campaign against Victor Yushchenko during the elections in Ukraine. Internet sites realted to him with most famous of them Strana.ru ahead, often publish biased comments about information from other media, raising "flame wars" on Ukrainian or Baltic countries Internet pages.
Russian translation of Kaluski's article is spreading over the Russian net very quickly. It already is on site Finance.mail.ru, where Kaluski has been promoted to "a Polish politologist". His article is in Ukraine now, over forums of Dinamo Kiev soccer club fans or Ukrainian diaspora's in USA.
Jaroslav Ogniev, Chief Editor of InoSMI.ru
There's been a mistake. I am sorry. We don't have Polish matters specialists, we rarely publish articles from your press. Most often those which arouse interest of our Foreign Ministry appear. One of our co-workers proposed this article. Never mind who it was.