Russia's War Against Ukraine
Timothy Snyder: Russia’s propaganda war is a danger for Ukraine’s Jews
Ultra-orthodox Jews offer prayers in the small Ukrainian city of Uman, some 200 kms south of Kyiv on September 9, 2010.
Violence is a distraction from the simple facts, and propaganda turns distraction into abstraction, people into symbols – and all the more now as Russian intervention in Ukraine grows ever more extensive and threatening. Consider the threat made by the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, that it would "respond" if Russian citizens in Ukraine are harmed. Yet who are these citizens?
