Since the Ukraine crisis erupted last year, Western leaders have consistently accused the Kremlin of manipulating media coverage, fudging facts or concocting outright fabrications to deny its role in the conflict. Now, an official interpreter at a Kremlin press conference has omitted a top Western leader’s stinging criticism of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region … Continue reading Merkel’s remark on ‘criminal’ annexation of Crimea omitted in Russian translation