I was emailed by abdymok this morning with an article of his that clears up the article written by the New York Times about how the Ukraine secret police stopped the government from attacking the protesters.

Stanislav Reutsky doesn????????t write spy novels for a living.

But to hear the story of the 15-year veteran journalist????????s recent run-in with the nation????????s top spy agency, you????????d think he might want to start.
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Serhiy Popkov, the commander of troops from Ukraine????????s Interior Ministry, dismissed the charge. He responded curtly in an interview with the national daily tabloid Segodnya on Jan. 18 saying he was “surprised” by the NYT????????s interpretation of the events, insisting that the so-called deployment was merely as a drill.

According to SBU spokeswoman Marina Ostapenko, the version told to the NYT by her bosses was accurate, if not exaggerated.

???????No big mistakes in the article, just a tad too melodramatic,??????? she said.

Cool. I find it really interesting that with the introduction of the blogosphere, not only do we have the media story, but we have the blog story, the fact-checking story, and then the background story to the story as well.