Radhika Desai has come under fire for participating in an event organized by a group placed on Canada’s Russian sanctions list for “generating and disseminating disinformation and propaganda.” The University of Manitoba political sciences professor defends her decision.
A University of Manitoba professor is under fire for attending an event organized by a Russian think-tank on Canada's sanctions list for spreading disinformation — during which, critics say, she helped Moscow's propaganda efforts against Ukraine. But Radhika Desai says she's done nothing wrong.Prof. Radhika Desai of the University of Manitoba has come under fire for participating in the Valdai Discussion Club, in Sochi, Russia, earlier this month.
The exchange played into Putin's oft-repeated but unsupported claim that Russia is trying to "de-Nazify" Ukraine. "It is basically a Putin-curated, Kremlin-curated propaganda-fest," said Marcus Kolga, founder and director of DisinfoWatch and a senior fellow at both the Macdonald-Laurier and CDA institutes.But Desai rejects those descriptions of Valdai.
Desai and her husband, Alan Freeman, were traveling in China when they heard Valdai had been sanctioned. Global Affairs Canada, the RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency won't say if the couple is under investigation.
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