Zadornov put in the mouth of Jen Psaki the words of the prosecutor from the Perm region

A joke by famous Russian comedian Mikhail Zadornov about a Malaysian Boeing being shot down over Ukraine caused widespread discussion among Internet users. Especially when bloggers found out that the satirist had distorted a quote from former US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.

On the eve, the network has received widespread video with fragment speeches Zadornov, where he jokingly explains why Americans stopped talking about the Boeing tragedy in eastern Ukraine, which occurred in the summer of 2014.

“They realized who violated all this. But Psaki revealed the exact reason for the fall. The Malaysian Boeing, she said, fell because it was heavier than air,” Zadornov sarcastically said in his speech.

As meticulous Internet users found out, Psaki did not utter such words - this was done by the prosecutor of the Chusovsky district of the Perm Territory, Andrei Deliev, and for a different reason.

“The plane fell due to gravity, since the machine is heavier than air,” Deliev commented on the fall of the MiG-31 fighter during training flights in November 2010.

Joke Zadornov caused a storm of indignation in social networks. Users vied with accusing the humorist of vulgarity and cynicism. In this case, as noted by bloggers, in the auditorium a satirist joke caused a loud laugh.

From the “capture of Kyiv” to the “attack on Georgia”

Scandals involving misrepresentation of quotes from high-ranking officials are not uncommon. Sometimes not only artists or journalists, but also government officials themselves are accused of inaccurate quoting.

For example, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev in a recent interview with Kommersant quoted saying ex-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that “Russia does not own either the Far East or Siberia.”

Albright herself denies having uttered such words. The experts who were approached by the BBC Russian Service were also unable to confirm when, to whom and in what context Albright could say this.

In September last year, the Russian authorities caught the head of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, in inaccurately quoting the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Shortly after this, Barroso himself admitted in an interview with CNN that Putin’s big words about “taking Kyiv in two weeks,” which he quoted, were taken out of context and distorted, but not through his fault.

In December, 2009 broke out a scandal over quoting the phrase of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, in an interview with Reuters. Some media then cited the following quote from the Chechen leader:

“The Russian government needs to develop a strategy; now is the time to attack. Georgia, South Ossetia, Ukraine - it all goes on endlessly. This is a state problem in Russia. Why should we suffer all the time if we can stop it?”

After that, the leadership of the Russian bureau Reuters stated that the authors of publications on the Internet had distorted Kadyrov's original quote, which is why it began to be perceived as if the head of Chechnya was calling to attack Ukraine and Georgia.