CNN RUNS FAKE NEWS STORY ABOUT RUSSIA CLOSING ANGLO-AMERICAN SCHOOL IN MOSCOW

[MikeWB]

CNN, one of the media outfits that regularly complains about "fake news," ran a fake news story of its own when it claimed that Russia was closing an Anglo-American school in Moscow as retaliation for President Obama's sanctions.
"Russian authorities ordered the closure of the Anglo-American School of Moscow, a US official briefed on the matter said. The order from the Russian government closes the school, which serves children of US, British and Canadian embassy personnel, to US and foreign nationals," reported CNN.
However, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova responded swiftly by denying that the school had been closed.
"US officials 'anonymously informed' their media that Russia closed the Anglo-American School in Moscow as a retaliatory measure," Zakharova wrote on her official Facebook page. "That's a lie. Apparently, the White House has completely lost its senses and began inventing sanctions against its own children."
Zakharova accused CNN of spreading "false information citing official American sources".
The misreported story is an embarrassment for the network, which has run a series of articles over the past month complaining about so-called fake news.
Russia's actual response to the sanctions was to propose that Vladimir Putin declare "31 employees of the US Embassy in Moscow and four diplomats from the US Consulate service in St. Petersburg as persons 'non-grata.'" However, Putin later rejected this measure.
Meanwhile, in a related story, a senior U.S. official told Reuters that President-elect Donald Trump could reverse Obama's executive order once he takes office and allow the 35 expelled Russian officials to return to America.

Fake News from CNN: https://archive.fo/nTZ6U