Finnish Janus
Putkonen permanently moved to Donetsk in summer 2015, at that time he
founded "media company" DONi-News
with Russian money. DONi-News disseminate to the world "news" -
mainly - from the Donetsk People's Republic. Social media such as Facebook and VKontakte, Putkonen aggressively disseminate disinformation and
propaganda to a large number of Finns.
DONi-News can’t be considered a reliable
"media", it is a Russian-funded propaganda publication that
disseminates propaganda and disinformation to the world, and is intended to
create uncertainty for readers. DONi-News is a natural continuation of the work
of Putkonen, before moving to Donetsk, he acted as "editor-in-chief” of Verkkomedia,
publishing conspiracy theories and rumors.
In Donetsk, under the guidance of Putkonen and
Russian donors, DONi-News is not only the disseminator and creator of
disinformation, it can also be regarded as an otherwise active actor. For
example, Putkonen’s role in Egorova Leaks
(1) and the role of DONi-News “journalists” as a mediator of disinformation in
the context of "ceasefire violations".
While France-24 channel journalists
were visiting in the fall of 2016 in Donetsk, DONi-News's reporter Christelle Néant was on their way to
militants arranging a "ceasefire", whereof accused of Ukrainian armed
forces. (2) A similar observation was made earlier by VICE News reporter Jake
Hanrahan. (3) I dare say that arranging the "ceasefire" was known
to Putkonen, the presence of the "journalist" of DONi-News can be
considered as one proof - thus immediately "information" about the
"ceasefire" is given to the world.
DONi-News publishes almost daily news of
shelling carried out by Ukrainian troops and a large number of defeats and
destroyed buildings of "People's
Republic". An example of this can be the news of September 29th
2017: AFU shell Donetsk northern
outskirts with heavy weapons (screenshot).
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Interesting on this news is that the picture
has been used earlier, it is taken on July 2nd 2014 by Valerii Melnikov (RIA Novosti) and that image is from the Luhansk Oblast area. In addition, the image is also turned into a
mirror image in DONi News.
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Screenshot
ria.ru/world.
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The fact is that the old picture is used for
years ago and that the original image is turned into a mirror image, combined
with recent news coverage, throws suspicion over the news of DONi News. –
again.
This is not the first time that DONi News will
be misleading with its illustrations and headlines. Take, for example, the next
picture collage, which I have put two propaganda “news” published by DONi News, using a
photo taken after a rocket attack by the Russian forces in January 2015. The
target was the Mariupol controlled by Ukraine.
On the left, two news from DONi News, the
highest on June 6th 2017 and the lowest on February 28th 2017
- the same image in both news, whose obvious purpose is to raise the audience
with strong feelings - perhaps hate. The image was originally taken on January
24th 2015 (right) in Ukraine's controlled Mariupol, at that time the city
was shot by Russian forces on BM-21 Grad MLRS. There were 30 civilians killed in
the rocket attack, with a more than hundred civilian injured.
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| On the left, two fakenews for the DONi News, the original picture on the right. |
Janus Putkonen distributes DONi-News regularly
on various conspiracy theories and "news" about shot down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. He seem an innate theory in which
flight MH17 was shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-25 attack plane.
During the spring and early summer 2017, Putkonen published at least three MH17
"news". Alongside them, he publishes Facebook messages on this
subject, pointing them to Finnish readers.
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Wider attention was given by Putkonen and DONi News
during the winter, DONi News divide a “news” by the thousands of American main
battle tanks that are brought to Europe to threat the Russia. Atlantic Council's DFRLab made on this "news" an excellent and
well-documented report “Three thousand
fake tanks”. (4) In April 2017, DONi News was also actively divide a
propaganda about the arrival of the "Islamic Battalion" to Mariupol. It was one of the first, if not the first,
"media" to share this propaganda news.
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Screenshot dninews.com.
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For Finns, Putkonen has presented himself as a “freedom fighter”, but at the same time
he urges foreign journalists to show loyalty to the “People's Republic”. It is
also impossible to reconcile the role of the "freedom fighter" as a
collector of data on journalists, their evaluation and forwarding of
information on security forces on Donetsk "People's Republic", a
fact that was revealed in connection with Egorova Leaks. (5)
To Finland and Finns, Putkonen together with Johan Bäckman also shares targeted
propaganda, the latest one being his plan for Nova-Finland, just like
Novorossiya - separatism in Finland. The credibility of such plans is not high,
but their task is to create confusion and mislead "useful idiots" in Finland, compare this Russian media reports
about "separatism in archipelago of
Åland". (6)
Marko
My readers, excuse my English, did not wrote on it very much lately, so there could be several mistakes.
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