[marshmallow]

No, I'm not mistaking it for a "transcript". My claim is simple and specific; that Putin actually said the words in quotation marks in the article.

Do you want to tell us that he didn't?

I understand that you consider Putin's every utterance to be "propaganda" but how does a faithful reporting of his words qualify as "propaganda"?

[MeganC]

There’s a lot of spin and “clarification” in that article. It isn’t just quotes and the spin nullifies the claim of ‘faithful reporting’.

And the point of the article, and the point of Sputnik News itself, is to advance the interests of the Russian Federation in the media...including Free Republic.