"🥸 Airat Shiryaev, a correspondent for the Russian state TV channel REN TV, recently posed as a BBC News Russian journalist in an attempt to get an interview with Tatyana Lazareva, a former Russian TV presenter who left the country in 2022 and condemned the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. When a real BBC reporter caught wind of the scheme and called Shiryaev on the phone, he claimed to be a BBC correspondent who “left Russia after the start of the special military operation,” using the Kremlin’s state-mandated euphemism for the full-scale war. When other BBC journalists made it clear that they knew Shiryaev was faking his identity and asked him why he was doing it, he told them to “disappear into the sunset and stop interfering with [his] work.” (BBC News Russian)"
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