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March 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
A post written on the Ridus news
portal that day does indeed describe how two cameramen openly filmed
organisers handing money to two queues of people wearing white ribbons, a
symbol adopted by the dissenters. “In this way, a series of
inflammatory videos were clearly being prepared about how the ‘opposition
collects people for the protests in exchange for money,'” the author
noted at the time.
In reality, the claim of opposition protesters being paid is contradicted by
widespread and credible reports of people receiving money to attend
pro-Putin rallies.
Other parts of the film seemed likely to elicit ridicule as much as disgust. A
constant refrain of Kremlin propaganda is that the United States is behind
Russia’s protest movement. “What are people from the US embassy [in
Moscow] doing at the demonstrations?” intones the narrator in faux
horror at one point in the film as a confused looking man apparently on the
fringe of a protest clearly speaks in German.
Russians jammed the internet to express horror at the programme.
“Every year since Putin killed free NTV it has become ranker and ranker,”
wrote one, Alexey Zhirnov.”With
‘Anatomy of Protest’ we have reached the apotheosis of foulness.”
NTV published a statement saying its website had come under a direct denial of
service (DDoS) attack on Friday morning, although another theory was that
the site crashed for about an hour because of the number of people trying to
complain.
The channel said the alleged hacking was a response to the programme.
“Insulting comments aimed at the creators of the film and channel”
had begun appearing on its social networking pages, NTV added. It made no
comment on criticism of the programme.
Opposition activists announced a picket for Sunday [March 18] afternoon
outside the Ostankino television tower in Moscow. They said they would “demand
a stop to the lies on NTV and on television in general.”
NTV was once respected for its hard-hitting documentaries on corruption and
the war in Chechnya but it became a Kremlin mouthpiece after it was taken
over in 2001 by the state energy giant, Gazprom.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Ekspert magazine, whose editor was interviewed for the
programme, said he had been tricked into giving comments out of context. The
magazine said it would not co-operate with NTV in future.
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