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This coverage is part of an overall immediate and visceral mediascape in the country, according to Russian expert, NYU professor

Mark Galeotti. If you affirm a lie routinely enough, you can defend it, said Galeotti, who just returned from a trip to Russia to analyze the elections. He found while there that the television coverage in the country remained ponderous and elephantine with propaganda. He added: The television output [on Syria] is not so much about what is going on, but about U.S.-led pressure to ratify the U.N. resolution as it was presented. They were relating it back to Libya, where Russia felt tricked.

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