Alexander Yakovenko, Russia's ambassador to Britain, marked the launch of RT UK, the Kremlin's British-specific propaganda channel, on Thursday with a lengthy and eccentric Twitter rant that saw him make extraneous references to Financial Timescolumnist Martin Wolf and novelist Virginia Woolf while claiming the network would "be as innovative as [the] Russian avant-garde."
BuzzFeed: Russian ambassador to Britain welcomes new propaganda channel with bizarre rant
RT (formerly named \"Russia Today\"), Russian state-funded cable and satellite television channel directed to audiences outside of the Russian Federation.
