They did it by deception.
Lithuanian presidential candidate Giedrimas Jeglinskas said he had become a victim of Belarusian propagandists after an interview appeared on one of the websites, which he claims he would never have given.
“I was officially approached for an interview by the opposition Russian portal Meduza, after which suddenly the interview was placed on a Belarusian propaganda channel with all sorts of ‘vatnic’ embellishments,” the candidate said.
He said that the content of the interview did not bother him, but getting to the propagandists was unpleasant.
“My advice to all my colleagues is to assess very responsibly whether it is worth commenting on something even to opposition channels,” Eglinskas wrote.
The Delfi editorial board contacted Meduza editor-in-chief Ivan Kolpakov, who said that the media outlet had nothing to do with the letter Jeglinskas received.
