{"id":69704,"date":"2021-11-08T14:35:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df.news\/?p=69704"},"modified":"2021-11-08T14:35:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:35:36","slug":"exhibit-glorifying-russian-invaders-of-ukrainian-donbas-opens-in-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2021\/11\/08\/exhibit-glorifying-russian-invaders-of-ukrainian-donbas-opens-in-prague\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit glorifying Russian invaders of Ukrainian Donbas opens in Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although it seems impossible in 2021 in a European capital, a photo exhibition by a Russian propagandist notorious for spreading misinformation, fake news, and manipulation opened Prague. Not only is this a photo exhibition authored by a long-compromised individual, it\u2019s also dedicated to the “heroic defenders” of Donbas from “Ukrainian fascism”, simply put \u2013 to the invaders.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to a Ukraine-based military and political commentator Oleksandr Kovalenko<\/a>, who commented on the opening of an exhibition by journalist Kristina Melnikova. Ironically, the exhibit is located on Political Prisoners Street, which adds even more cynical notes to the situation.<\/p>\n

According to Kovalenko, the photo exhibition displays a wide range of propagandist Melnikova\u2019s photos, praising pro-Russian militants and terrorists who seized part of the territory of Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

“Kristina Melnikova, as befits a propagandist without moral principles and any remnants of conscience, refers to them as \u2018the people of Donbas,\u2019 fighters for \u2018independence,\u2019 and, of course, insurgents opposing \u2018Ukrainian fascism,\u2019\u201d said the expert.<\/p>\n

Oleksandr Kovalenko added that the photo exhibition had been organized under the patronage of the leader of the Czech Republic and Moravia\u2019s Communist Party, MEP Kate\u0159ina Kone\u010dn\u00e1, who has been calling for destroying capitalism.<\/p>\n

The event was covered by the Halo noviny newspaper, which is brazenly called “the only Czech newspaper that does not belong to foreign companies and defends the interests of Czech sovereignty.”<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, Halo noviny is directly subordinated to the Communist Party of the Czech Republic, while its editorial policy is supervised by the party\u2019s deputy chief Roman Bla\u0161ko. By the way, not surprisingly, the Communist Party of the Czech Republic and Moravia, is suspected of receiving financial assistance from Russia through the branch of Russia\u2019s Sberbank in the Czech Republic,\u201d Kovalenko said.<\/p>\n

As for the network of communist parties in Europe and across the world, it\u2019s no secret that they are all being handled by Russian secret services. Therefore, the connection between the Czech Communist Party and Ms Menikova who has been deployed in all kinds of hotspots, from Donbas to Nagorno-Karabakh, as an agent of the Russian secret services looks quite logical. So the photo exhibition appears to be a well-plotted psy-op orchestrated in Russia.<\/p>\n

Kovalenko has stressed that during the exhibition, Roman Bla\u0161ko claimed that Donbas remains the forefront of the European struggle against neo-fascism and the Western hegemony that supports it.<\/p>\n

“In general, this is a toxic cocktail of Russian propaganda and glorification of terrorists and invaders in the heart of Prague. And it will last until the end of the year. I\u2019m surprised that the Czech authorities allowed this, but, in my opinion, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine should respond appropriately to this photo exhibit,\u201d Oleksandr Kovalenko concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although it seems impossible in 2021 in a European capital, a photo exhibition by a Russian propagandist notorious for spreading misinformation, fake news, and manipulation opened Prague. Not only is this a photo exhibition authored by a long-compromised individual, it\u2019s also dedicated to the “heroic defenders” of Donbas from “Ukrainian fascism”, simply put \u2013 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5142,5143,5153],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-security","9":"category-top-en"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3550109_900.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}