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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Twitter meme mocks Russian claims over Slovyansk shootout

Published April 21, 2014 at 10:55 am

A man holds what is said to be the business card of Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh found at the scene of a shootout in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk on April 20. News of the business card, which many believe was planted at the scene to incriminate the nationalist militant group, spawned a viral meme on social media.

Photo by LifeNews.ru

If Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of the Ukrainian far-right group Right Sector, wasn't known to the world before, he is well on his way now.

Yarosh shot to fame overnight, literally, after the Russian news site Lifenews claimed his business card was found at the scene of a deadly shoot-out at a checkpoint manned by pro-Russian activists in eastern Ukraine.