{"id":47662,"date":"2022-02-26T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T11:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47662"},"modified":"2022-02-26T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T11:24:42","slug":"putin-redrawing-borders-rewriting-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47662","title":{"rendered":"Putin: Redrawing borders, rewriting history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"32\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video Duration<!-- --> <!-- -->27 minutes 30 seconds <\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"video-duration__duration\">27:30<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\"><span class=\"program__page__source\"><span class=\"video-program-source__from-label\"> From: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/program\/the-listening-post\"><span class=\"video-program-source__program-name\"> The Listening Post<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead css-1wt8oh6\">News of the invasion of Ukraine floods the airwaves \u2013 we look at media narratives, historical myths and Putin\u2019s push to redraw borders and rewrite history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"72\">\n<p>As news of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine floods the airwaves, and with the prospect of a wider conflict brewing in Eastern Europe between Russia and the NATO alliance, we are dispensing with our usual format.<\/p>\n<h2>On our radar:<\/h2>\n<p>Richard Gizbert starts with a roundup of the global narratives competing for air time in the days running up to the Russian invasion, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s media moment. Producer Johanna Hoes then takes us through Russia\u2019s side of the story, highlighting some examples of misinformation coming out of Moscow.<\/p>\n<h2>Russia: National myths and rewriting history<\/h2>\n<p>The conflict currently playing out in Ukraine involves former Cold War adversaries and competing versions of history. This week, before invading Ukraine, the Russian president questioned the very idea of the country\u2019s statehood. <em>The Listening Post\u2019s<\/em> Tariq Nafi reports from Moscow on a new historical discourse that emphasises Russia\u2019s history as a great power and mythologises the country\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributors:<\/strong><br \/>Nikita Petrov\u00a0 \u2013 Historian &#038; member, Memorial<br \/>Yevgenia Albats \u2013 Journalist &#038; editor-in-chief, The New Times<br \/>Mikhail Myagkov \u2013 Scientific director, the Russian Military-Historical Society<\/p>\n<h2>India: The emboldening of anti-Muslim messaging<\/h2>\n<p>One political leader who may be grateful that the eyes of the news world are trained on Ukraine would be India\u2019s Narendra Modi. With elections either under way or looming in some key states, Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) keeps playing its Hindu nationalist, anti-Muslim card.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributors:<\/strong><br \/>Rana Ayyub \u2013 Global opinions columnist, The Washington Post &#038; author, Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up<br \/>Supriya Sharma \u2013 Executive editor, Scroll.in<br \/>Aakar Patel \u2013 Author, Price of the Modi Years<br \/>Fatima Khan \u2013\u00a0 Reporter, The Quint<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Duration 27 minutes 30 seconds 27:30 From: The Listening PostNews of the invasion of Ukraine floods the airwaves \u2013 we look at media narratives, historical myths and Putin\u2019s push to redraw borders and rewrite history.As news of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine floods the airwaves, and with the prospect of a wider conflict brewing in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}