DutchNews.nl, July 21, 2015
The Netherlands and
Poland are launch a Russian-language news agency in order to counter Russian
propaganda, website EUObserver reported on Tuesday.
Dutch foreign minister Bert
Koenders told reporters in Brussels the project will ‘give the tools and the
capacities for Russian language [media] and Russian social media to work on the
basis of objective information’, the website said.
There is broad support among
EU foreign ministers for the initiative, Koenders is quoted as saying.
A
fund-raising conference will be held in Warsaw in September and the Netherlands
will host a follow-up conference later, EUObserver said. The aim is to have the
agency up and running by next year.
The initiative follows a report on counter
propaganda commissioned by the Netherlands from the European Endowment for
Democracy (EED), in Brussels in the wake of the MH17 disaster.
The plane was
shot down in eastern Ukraine, probably by pro-Russian rebels. However, Russian
officials and media have consistently published conspiracy theories blaming
Ukraine.
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