Mass hype around Zapad-2017 exercises replaced by sober assessment

21 сентября 2017

By Alexei Martininok: The large-scale joint maneuvers of Belarus and Russia have been completed. At the same time, the information space of the whole world continues to analyze, compare and summarize the event. It is interesting that after the completion of maneuvers, many media, in particular, foreign ones, have changed their rhetoric. The mass excitement around the exercises, heated by deliberately distorted information from individual publications, was replaced by a sober assessment, based on facts.

In total, more than 270 foreign journalists were accredited for the exercises. The exercises were also attended by international observers: 80 people, including representatives of NATO countries, OSCE, CIS, representatives of the Red Cross and other organizations. As a result, even skeptics have acknowledged the transparency of the exercises.