“Boys, do you want to do some action in front of the camera?” they said the Russian journalists asked them. Mr. Saleh later took a Danish journalist to meet tw

“Boys, do you want to do some action in front of the camera?” they said the Russian journalists asked them. Mr. Saleh later took a Danish journalist to meet two of the young men. After searching online, they recognized the logo of the Russian state-owned news channel NTV, along with the Russians who had made the offer. The journalist contacted NTV, which denied the whole thing. But besides Mr. Castillo, the night watchman, The Times found other witnesses who backed up Mr. Saleh’s account. Elvir Kazinic and Mustafa Zatara said they were in the square a couple of days after the clash when they overheard another group of young men talking about Russian journalists and a 400 krona bribe to fight. I learned something from this: fake violence paid for by Russian journalists.