THE HAGUE – Harry van Bommel, a left-wing member of the Dutch Parliament, had persuasive allies in convincing voters that they should reject a trade pact with Ukraine – his special “Ukrainian team,” a gleefully contrarian group of émigrés whose sympathies lay with Russia.
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New York Times: Fake news, fake Ukrainians – how Russians tilted a Dutch vote
Activists hold symbolic ears as posters near the Dutch embassy in Kyiv on Feb. 5, 2016. The activists called upon the Netherlands to not trust Russian propaganda against Ukraine ahead of a referendum on an association agreement of the EU with Ukraine.
