Euronews Admits Error in Story on Crimean Tatars Following Moscow's Remarks

The Euronews television channel has made an error citing an inaccurate number of Crimean Tatars deported in the 1940s in an article published on the English version of its website, the channel's head of press and public relations, Lydie Bonvallet, said Friday, following remarks by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

PARIS (Sputnik) – Earlier in the day, the channel corrected an error in the article posted on its website, changing the number of the Crimean Tatars allegedly deported across the Soviet Union during the rule of Joseph Stalin from two million to 200,000, following remarks by the Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

"The English version of our deportations commemoration story did include an inaccuracy regarding the number of deported Tatars. The story has been corrected and an amended version re-published on all Euronews platforms," Bonvallet told RIA Novosti.

The Euronews spokeswoman added all the other twelve language versions of the website carried the correct figure.

Zakharova said earlier on Friday that the number of the deported Tatars in the English version of the text exceeded the number stated in its Russian version ten times and called on the channel to apologize for the "politicized" error.