Translation question clarification

[E Wayles Browne]

We have a verb: the government PLANTED a story (in the newspaper, saying
that....). So the story is a planted story.
-- 
Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
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> Dear all,
>
> thank you for your suggestions and an interesting discussion. The story is
> this.
>
> As you might remember, in 2004 the Belarusian government closed European
> Humanities University in Minsk, because it "had a wrong teaching agenda"
> and
> insisted on academic freedoms ets. The closing was brutal (we were told to
> vacate the premises from our "belongings", including the library, which is
> a
> donation from the Americam, French and German governments, in two weeks
> time) and absoluetly political. The story was covered in NYT and the
> Chronicle of Higher Education, among other media.
>
> EHU "resurrected" in Vilnius as a university-in-exile, with support from
> the
> EU and several American Foundations (MacArthur, Carnegie etc.) and with
> transferrable credits recognized in Europe. Recently, several articles
> were
> published in Belarusian government newspapers reading that EHU is a
> political organization and that students do nothing else but drink and
> conspire against the government. The timing is clear, as in July and
> August
> many school graduates make a decision where to go to college.
> I believe, the EHU admanistration is interested in disseminating a kind of
> "oproverzhenie", hence my question.
>
> e.g.
>
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