Did you willfully ignore what the person you're responding to said? Russian news is largely constructing an alternate reality where facts don't matter, and it appears it's even working on those outside the country to some extent if your comment is any indication. Go visit some Russian news sources and look around.

Here's an example of what's been going on:

>Take Novorossiya, the name Vladimir Putin has given to the huge wedge of southeastern Ukraine he might, or might not, consider annexing. The term is plucked from tsarist history, when it represented a different geographical space. Nobody who lives in that part of the world today ever thought of themselves as living in Novorossiya and bearing allegiance to it—at least until several months ago. Now, Novorossiya is being imagined into being: Russian media are showing maps of its ‘geography,’ while Kremlin-backed politicians are writing its ‘history’ into school textbooks. There’s a flag and even a news agency (in English and Russian). There are several Twitter feeds. It’s like something out of a Borges story—except for the very real casualties of the war conducted in its name.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/rus...