Ukraine: Russian propaganda and three disaster scenarios - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Ukraine: Russian propaganda and three disaster scenarios - Opinion - Al Jazeera English:

 As the Ukrainian presidential election scheduled on May 25 gets closer, Kremlin's window of opportunity for invading the country and derailing its European course is gradually narrowing. The rhetoric of Russian President Vladimir Putin justifying the Anschluss of Crimea and unscrupulous meddling in Ukraine's internal affairs has been based on the premises that there is no legitimate government in Kiev, that it is being run by a gang of Nazis and anti-Semites who took power by coup d'etat and terrorised Russians and Russophones all over the country.

Such a claim, however calumnious and fully disproved on the ground by independent observers, opinion polls and the minorities themselves, can be sold nonetheless to some audiences, at least Russian, willing for various reasons to be fooled.

Russian propaganda has portrayed Ukrainian authorities in Kiev as fascists, writes Riabchuk [EPA]