“Liberate” is an interesting choice of term, given the communities in question aren’t in Russia’s sovereignty.
To be clear, I don’t personally have proof of whether the citizenry is broadly thrilled about or terrified of the soldiers in their streets.
I just believe it’s journalistic best practice for any case where an army taking part in a war of territorial expansion claims territory to use a neutral term like “control” rather than a biased one like “liberate” or “oppress”.
TASS is Russia’s state-owned news agency, so there’s no expectation of neutrality or journalistic best practices.
It can still be informative, as long as the stories are taken as the best plausible narrative they can construct to account for whatever it is that actually happened.
“Liberate” is an interesting choice of term, given the communities in question aren’t in Russia’s sovereignty.
To be clear, I don’t personally have proof of whether the citizenry is broadly thrilled about or terrified of the soldiers in their streets.
I just believe it’s journalistic best practice for any case where an army taking part in a war of territorial expansion claims territory to use a neutral term like “control” rather than a biased one like “liberate” or “oppress”.
TASS is Russia’s state-owned news agency, so there’s no expectation of neutrality or journalistic best practices.
It can still be informative, as long as the stories are taken as the best plausible narrative they can construct to account for whatever it is that actually happened.