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Russian Language: Russian Officials

russian language: It's how Russian officials are waging a war of words, according to Hamilton Spectator. They're using the language of American politics to do it. But there's one way in which Russia and the United States are getting closer. Take fake news feik nyus an expression that regularly appears in the denunciation by Russian officials of American and European news reports. But none of those quite captures the modern phenomenon of an industry of made-up websites, tweets, and other social media posts that are created by someone and distributed by bots, said Michele A. Berdy, who writes a column about the Russian language for the Moscow Times. There are plenty of ways to express fake in Russian - obman, falshivka, poddelka, utka - depending on whether you're talking about a hoax, a falsification, a counterfeit, or a canard. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.