Secretary Kerry on Ukraine. Press release. CSPAN. 24 April 2014. (Originalzitat: “Russia Today network has deployed to promote president Putin’s [Ende der Übersetzung] fantasy about what is playing out on the ground. They almost spend full-time devoted to this effort, to propagandize, and to distort what is happening or not happening in Ukraine.”)
Julia Ioffe: What Is Russia Today? The Kremlin’s propaganda outlet has an identity crisis. Columbia Journalism Review, 28. September 2010: “… RT dedicated a twelve-minute interview to Hank Albarelli, a self-described American ‘historian’ who claims that the CIA is testing dangerous drugs on unwitting civilians. … On a recent episode of Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, the guests themselves berated Lavelle for saying that the 9/11 terrorists were not fundamentalists. (The ‘Truther’ claim that 9/11 was an inside job makes a frequent appearance on the channel, though Putin was the first to phone in his condolences to President Bush in 2001.) ‘I like being counterintuitive,’ Lavelle told me. ‘Being mainstream has been very dangerous for the West.’ This oppositional point of view was especially clear when RT rolled out a series of ads in the U.K. that featured images of Obama and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and asked, ‘Who poses the greater nuclear threat?’ or conflated pictures of a polar bear and an alien next to the text: ‘Climate Change: Science fact or science fiction?’”
Danila Schepowalnikow: Точка зрения / Сентябрь 2012 – Другое телевидение. Interview mit dem Geschäftsführer von TV-Novosti, Alexei Nikolow. In: comnews.ru. 19. September 2012, abgerufen am 22. März 2023 (russisch).
Elizabeth Nelson, Robert Orttung, Anthony Livshen, Yelizaveta Layer, Oksana Ryjouk: Information Warfare. (PDF) In: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD). Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University, 8. Dezember 2015, abgerufen am 16. Dezember 2020 (englisch).
Marc Stegherr, Kerstin Liesem: Die Medien in Osteuropa: Mediensysteme im Transformationsprozess. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-92487-8, S.331f. (eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche).
Philip Seib: The Al Jazeera Effect: How the New Global Media Are Reshaping World Politics. Potomac Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-61234-002-9 (hier in der Google-Buchsuche [abgerufen am 23. April 2019]): „Unfortunately, at the level of the mass consciousness in the West, Russia is associated with three words: ‘communism’, ‘snow’, and ‘poverty’. We would like to present a more complete picture of life in our country.“
Marcel H. Van Herpen: Putin’s Propaganda Machine: Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2015, ISBN 978-1-4422-5362-9, S. 71 in der Google-Buchsuche.
Katja Gloger: Putins Welt: Das neue Russland, die Ukraine und der Westen. Berlin Verlag, München 2015, ISBN 978-3-8270-7854-4, S. 91 f. in der Google-Buchsuche
Marcel H. Van Herpen: Putin’s Propaganda Machine: Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4422-5361-2, S.73 (hier in der Google-Buchsuche).
Peter Pomerantsev: Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia. Faber & Faber, 2015, ISBN 978-0-571-30803-3 (hier in der Google-Buchsuche [abgerufen am 28. Dezember 2016] keine Seitenangabe in der verlinkten Google-Books-Vorschau des Textes): „Russia Today began to look and sound like any 24/7 news channel: the thumping music before the news flash, the earnest pretty newscasters, the jock-like sports broadcasters.“
“Working for a Kremlin channel does not seem like an obvious choice for Mr Assange, who has devoted his life to fighting governmental opacity, but Russia Today has made a name for itself as a strident critic of US policy.” – Assange takes chat-show job with state-funded Russian TV. 2012.
Julia Ioffe: What is Russia Today? 1. September 2010 für Columbia Journalism Review, erwähnt in slate.com: “Russia Today was conceived as a soft-power tool to improve Russia’s image abroad, to counter the anti-Russian bias the Kremlin saw in the Western media. Since its founding in 2005, however, the broadcast outlet has become better known as an extension of former President Vladimir Putin’s confrontational foreign policy. Too often the channel was provocative just for the sake of being provocative.”
Tom Schaffer: „Russia Today“: So funktioniert Putins Propaganda-Sender. In: kurier.at. 4. Dezember 2017, abgerufen am 7. August 2022: „Tatsächlich scheint Russia Today das in den ersten Jahren versucht zu haben. Viele Nachrichten drehten sich um Ereignisse in Russland oder mit russischer Beteiligung, boten einen offiziellen Blickwinkel auf diese Angelegenheiten. Nur kaum jemand interessierte sich dafür.“
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Susanne Spahn: Das Ukraine-Bild in Deutschland: Die Rolle der russischen Medien Wie Russland die öffentliche Meinung in Deutschland beeinflusst. In: Russland-Analysen, Nr. 317, 3. Juni 2016, S. 2; laender-analysen.de (PDF; 1 MB).
abby: Never Stop Breaking the Set. In: Media Roots – Reporting From Outside Party Lines. Abgerufen am 23. April 2019 (englisch): „RT has given me opportunities I will be eternally thankful for and hosting Breaking the Set has been the best and most invaluable experience of my life. I never imagined the kind of support it would generate, proving how many people are hungry for raw truth and systemic change.“
“… in striving to bring the West an alternate point of view, [RT] is forced to talk to marginal, offensive, and often irrelevant figures who can take positions bordering on the absurd. […] ‘I’m highly suspicious about the narrative I’m getting on CNN,’ he says. ‘It seems to be the flip side of RT. It’s too black and white, too virtuous and simple. Each side sounds like one hand clapping.’ RT might have a hard Kremlin slant, but Cohen argues that ‘any intelligent viewer can sort this out. I doubt that many idiots find their way to RT. First, you have to pay a lot for cable, and then you have to get way up in the numbers to find it.’”
Jesse Zwick: Pravda Lite – The New Republic, 14. März 2012
James Kirchick: Pravda on the Potomac. In: The New Republic. 18. Februar 2009, abgerufen am 15. Dezember 2022 (englisch).
Neil Macfarquhar: A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories. In: The New York Times. 28. August 2016 (nytimes.com [abgerufen am 27. Dezember 2016]).
Neil Macfarquhar: A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories. In: The New York Times. 28. August 2016 (nytimes.com [abgerufen am 31. Dezember 2016]).
David E. Sanger: Putin Ordered ‘Influence Campaign’ Aimed at U.S. Election, Report Says. In: The New York Times. 6. Januar 2017 (nytimes.com [abgerufen am 8. Januar 2017]).
Liberal im englischen Sprachgebrauch entspricht im Deutschen eher linksliberal oder sozialliberal. Siehe Thomas Fuster: Liberal – was soll das heissen? In: nzz.ch. 3. März 2016, abgerufen am 24. März 2022.
Assange chats with terrorist.AFP-Meldung. In: news.com.au. 18. April 2012, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 19. April 2015; abgerufen am 15. Februar 2023 (englisch).
Robert Parsons: Russia: New State Channel Goes Global In English. In: rferl.org. 16. September 2005, abgerufen am 22. April 2019 (englisch): „Russia Today is the brainchild of former Information Minister Mikhail Lesin and Putin’s press spokesman, Aleksei Gromov. They say they’ve grown tired of watching foreign journalists present a distorted and biased portrayal of Russia to the outside world. Russia Today will attempt to set the record straight.“
Robert Parsons: Russia: New State Channel Goes Global In English. In: rferl.org. 16. September 2005, abgerufen am 24. Februar 2023 (englisch): „Lesin has said Russia needs to start polishing its image. Otherwise, he said, ‘we’ll always look like bears.’“
Patrick Hilsman: Have you been watching Russian government propaganda? In: seattleglobalist.com. 6. Mai 2015, abgerufen am 24. März 2022 (englisch): „RT presents itself as a liberal alternative in the United States, but in Europe it is the flagship of resurgent nationalist parties.“
Julia Ioffe: What is Russia Today? 1. September 2010 für Columbia Journalism Review, erwähnt in slate.com: “Russia Today was conceived as a soft-power tool to improve Russia’s image abroad, to counter the anti-Russian bias the Kremlin saw in the Western media. Since its founding in 2005, however, the broadcast outlet has become better known as an extension of former President Vladimir Putin’s confrontational foreign policy. Too often the channel was provocative just for the sake of being provocative.”
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Russia Today is Putin’s weapon of mass deception. Will it work in Britain? In: The Spectator. 6. Dezember 2014 (spectator.co.uk [abgerufen am 28. Dezember 2016]): „RT does cover genuine reports about legitimate stories, seriously and without obvious bias, which makes it seem at times like any other news network. Not everything is a façade of lies. But RT is about a great deal more than that — and less.“
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Maik Baumgärtner, Roman Höfner, Ann-Katrin Müller: So arbeitet Putins Propagandasender. In: Der Spiegel. Nr.9, 2021 (So arbeitet Putins Propagandasender [abgerufen am 4. Februar 2022]). (Volltext hinter Paywall)
Rundfunk: Propaganda mit Stalin. In: Der Spiegel. Nr.47, 2007 (online). „Ich schrecke schon lange nicht mehr vor dem Wort Propaganda zurück“, sagte er. „Wir müssen international für Russland werben. Sonst sehen wir aus wie Bären, die brüllend umherschweifen.“
Jasper Jackson: RT sanctioned by Ofcom over series of misleading and biased articles. In: The Guardian. 21. September 2015 (theguardian.com [abgerufen am 27. Dezember 2016]).
Max Fisher: In case you weren’t clear on Russia Today’s relationship to Moscow, Putin clears it up. In: The Washington Post. 13. Juni 2013, abgerufen am 22. April 2019 (englisch): „When we designed this project back in 2005 we intended introducing another strong player on the world’s scene, a player that wouldn’t just provide an unbiased coverage of the events in Russia but also … try to break the Anglo-Saxon monopoly on the global information streams. And it seems to me that you’re succeeding in this job.“
Assange chats with terrorist.AFP-Meldung. In: news.com.au. 18. April 2012, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 19. April 2015; abgerufen am 15. Februar 2023 (englisch).