Serious propaganda methods are needed to present an armed operation against a blind young man and six law-abiding Crimean Tatar husbands and fathers as ‘Russia’s fight against terrorism’. This time Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed Crimean leader, got involved, thanking the FSB and other Russian enforcement officers with machine guns who had burst into homes where young children were sleeping and planted ‘prohibited literature’ in order to imprison the children’s fathers for a decade or more. Aksyonov claimed this was impeccable “work in fighting extremism and terrorism”, and that such “individuals” “should and will be imprisoned, without any variants”.
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Sergei Aksyonov, Russia-backed Crimean leader, takes part in an festive event marking the fourth anniversary of Crimea voting to leave Ukraine and join the Russian state in Simferopol on March 16, 2018.
