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On June 20, 2014, the Russian media appeared that the official representative of the State Department of the United States appeared Jennifer Psaki Once again, she demonstrated her incompetence in issues of international politics and geography.

Allegedly, in response to the question of the journalist of AP Matt, about Ukrainian women and children who arrive in large numbers in the Russian areas, Psaki said that there are no refugees from Ukraine in Russia, and in Ukraine the situation is calm and controlled by the United States: “These are just tourists. For example, they say that in the Rostov mountains a beautiful healing mountain air. ”

This was followed by jokes over the geographical knowledge of the American diplomat. “Where did mountain resorts come from in the Rostov region, Jen did not explain the psaki,” writes Lenta.ru

Internet publications Lenta.ru And Vesti.ru They referred to the article “Rossiy newspaper” (now removed from the site), the official printing authority of the Government of the Russian Federation. RG itself referred to the regional edition Donnews. And the Rostov Internet media did not refer to anyone. However, journalists found out that for the first time the quote sounded in the program "Politics" on the air of Channel One of June 17. One of the leading programs Alexander Gordon spoke about the dialogue. He read the above quote.

True, journalist Matt Lee on the same day when the publications went wrote On his twitter, that the quote of the psaki is false. And not only the answer of the psaki, but the question itself and in general the entire dialogue are invented from beginning to end.

In the decoding of daily briefings, which Published On the website of the US State Department, there are no traces of such a dialogue either. Thus, the totality of all available data leaves no doubt that it is really invented. Before us is a fake of pure water.

Journalists of the publication Slon (current Republic) Tried Contact the press service of Channel One. They promised to provide an official comment when they "figure it out in the situation." But no official comment on this story has appeared.

In addition, journalists tried to get through to Gordon personally. At first he was not in touch. Then someone managed to contact the TV presenter, and he said that he was smooth bribes. Like, what the editor gives him, then he reads. This, by the way, is quite consistent with the standard practice of television. Well, the editor - the person is not public and did not give any comments to anyone. Therefore, who accurately invented this story and for what purpose, we do not know yet.