[Berlin_Freeper]

An assassination attempt against Russian President Vladimir Putin... Russian news consumers are getting plenty of explanations for the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, which killed 298 people.

A Freak posted exactly that to me last week... that if I followed the news, I would know it was an assassination attempt.

I LoL'd.

[Berlin_Freeper]

vranyo
In Russian culture a distinction is drawn between two kinds of lies, vranyo and lozh which do not have exact parallels in English. Vranyo has been claimed as uniquely Russian, and seems to consist of telling untrue but credible stories, a practice not condemned by those who recognize what is going on. Indeed, for success in vranyo-telling, there must be a listener who pretends to believe in the truth of what is being said. [...] Lozh, on the other hand, implies a conscious intention to deceive.