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.
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.
