As relations with the U.S. and some of its allies become more publicly fractious and at times openly hostile, Russia's government has assembled a gigantic media machine not only for its own people, but to target a foreign audience from Warsaw to Washington with news items like these:
"CIA Director Admits: US Foreign Policy Causes Terrorism"
"US wants to make Ukraine a base to attack Russia"
"NATO breaks treaty to establish permanent forces in Baltic"
The Kremlin's ultimate goal, President Vladimir Putin has said, is "to try to break the monopoly of Anglo-Saxon media over the global flows of information."
