{"id":6006,"date":"2021-05-05T06:26:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T03:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/actors\/life\/"},"modified":"2021-07-19T10:59:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T07:59:39","slug":"life","status":"publish","type":"actors","link":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/actors\/life\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><b><i>Official position\/function regarding the conflict<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pro-Kremlin Internet tabloid the Life.ru media channel (until 2014 \u2013 LifeNews) was created in 2008 and belongs to the News Media holding of <a href=\"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/uk\/actors\/vseukrayinska-rada-tserkov-i-religijnih-organizatsij\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aram Gabrelyanov<\/a>. In 2013-2017, the <a href=\"https:\/\/life.ru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LIFE<\/a> TV channel was in operation, too. The channel became famous for its \u201cinnovative\u201d approach to receiving news in the form of a payment system for receiving instant exclusive information, photos, or videos from the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LIFE is one of the most active participants in the hatred campaign against Ukraine since the beginning of Euromaidan. It established itself as the main source for disseminating fakes, one-sided and unverified information. Since the beginning of the conflict, LIFE journalists have supported the separatists, worked in Donbas on the part of Russian and separatist armed formations. The LIFE studio operates in ORDLO, and the WarGonzo group, one of its propagandist projects, is also stationed there.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><b><i>Actions regarding the conflict<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life.ru and the LifeNews TV channel have been repeatedly accused of calling for aggression against Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/life.ru\/p\/917965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supporting and glorifying separatists<\/a>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> persecuting the opposition, manipulating facts, and using fakes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/russian\/features-37496581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On 17 July 2014, LifeNews was the first to report on \u201ca new victory of Donetsk militias\u201d \u2013 the downing of MH17, which they initially mistook for the An-26 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force<\/a>.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 Other examples of fakes are: <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.krymr.com\/a\/27666764.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cVoters in the Netherlands are hiding their faces, fearing revenge from Ukrainian radicals,\u201d<\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/life.ru\/p\/1042365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cThe former head of the internal troops said that there were foreign snipers on the Maidan,\u201d<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/life.ru\/p\/138238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cThe security forces allowed tourists in Ukraine to shoot at civilians,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> etc.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official position\/function regarding the conflict The pro-Kremlin Internet tabloid the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","actor-types":[193],"areas":[208],"topics":[179],"class_list":["post-6006","actors","type-actors","status-publish","hentry","actor-types-institution-en","areas-russia_eng","topics-propaganda-channels"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actors\/6006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/actors"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actors\/6006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6136,"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actors\/6006\/revisions\/6136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"actor-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor-types?post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/areas?post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}