You're quite right, Mr. Garneau, on this point. Our view is that this has been a significant line of what I referred to as the hybrid aggression Russia is undertaking against Ukraine, one significant element or stream of which is disinformation.
Really from the very early days of the crisis in Ukraine and the popular overthrow of former President Yanukovych, as Russia began to perceive that their key allies in the Ukrainian government—people they were supporting, who were protecting their interests—were losing their hold, they began to develop a sort of leitmotif or thread of disinformation that characterized the entire Maidan resistance movement as being influenced and even dominated by individuals who they claimed were neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, or affiliated with movements that went back to Ukraine's experience in the Second World War and collaborationism. Since then, this has remained a theme of the coverage of events by Russian media in Russia, but also of Russia's engagement on the issue in multilateral fora. Whether it's the OSCE, the United Nations, or other fora in which the Ukrainian issue is discussed, they insist constantly on that theme.
Our view is that this is a fundamental mischaracterization and misrepresentation of what occurs. That's not to say—