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Telegraph spikes ‘Russian propaganda’

The newspaper has been criticised for running the paid-for 'Russian propaganda'
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    The newspaper has been criticised for running the paid-for 'Russian propaganda' Richard Mills./The Times

The Daily Telegraph has removed links to pro-Kremlin stories about the downing of the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that it had featured on its website as part of a commercial deal.

The newspaper was criticised yesterday for running the paid-for “Russian propaganda” at the same time that it was arguing that Vladimir Putin’s government was complicit in the destruction of Flight MH17.

Roy Greenslade, a media commentator, said that the Telegraph’s Russia Beyond the Headlines supplement, and an associated section on its website, was at odds with its editorial view that the West should not “act soft” in the

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