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   "Burning in hell: Russian press sheds few tears for McCain"   
      
   Accusing the former Navy pilot of lying about being tortured while being   
   held prisoner during the Vietnam War, one popular tabloid concludes with   
   the hope that McCain is now burning in hell   
      
   Rappler.com/Agence France-Presse   
   Published 10:38 PM, August 27, 2018   
      
   MOSCOW, Russia - Russian pro-Kremlin media pulled no punches on Monday,   
   August 27, in condemning John McCain, who died of a brain tumor at the   
   weekend, as Washington's "chief Russophobe."   
      
   McCain, who died aged 81 on Saturday, irked Russia with his support for   
   pro-Western leaders in ex-Soviet Georgia and Ukraine as well as his   
   strong backing for sanctions over Moscow's annexation of Crimea.   
      
   "McCain became the chief symbol of Russophobia," Rossiya 1 television   
   said, adding that he "couldn't stand Russia's independent foreign   
   policy."   
      
   McCain "adored war. If you haven't been killed yet, that's not McCain's   
   fault. He tried," wrote pro-Kremlin tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda in a   
   biting editorial.   
      
   Accusing the former Navy pilot of lying about being tortured while being   
   held prisoner during the Vietnam War, the popular tabloid concluded with   
   the hope that McCain is now burning in hell.   
      
   "Senator McCain loved the flames of war. Let's believe he'll have enough   
   flames where his soul is resting," it wrote.   
      
   Life News, a pro-Kremlin tabloid news site, mocked the "chief   
   Russophobe" for his decision to publish a 2013 op-ed aimed at Russians   
   on an obscure news site called Pravda.ru.   
      
   He apparently believed the website to be connected the once-powerful   
   Soviet newspaper Pravda.   
      
   "Evidently no one told the senator that there had been certain changes   
   in Russia since his time in captivity in Vietnam," it wrote.   
      
   McCain was "a convinced hawk who pecked at Russia out of principle,"   
   Rossiya 1 reported on its main news show on Sunday evening, devoting   
   more than four minutes to the senator's life.   
      
   McCain "firmly supported all the military operations and wars that   
   America unleashed -- Kosovo, Iraq, Libya -- if he had not twice lost   
   presidential campaigns, everything could have been even more   
   catastrophic," it reported.   
      
   The high-rating show included the detail that McCain "was shot down in   
   Vietnam by a Soviet SA 75-Dvina missile complex."   
      
   While stressing McCain's contempt for President Donald Trump, the show   
   predicted that US "attempts to restrain and isolate Russia with harsh   
   sanctions will continue -- just now without John McCain."   
      
   'Irreconcilable enemies'   
      
   Russia's reaction contrasted starkly with that of Ukraine, where McCain   
   was a frequent visitor and top politicians expressed condolences.   
      
   President Petro Poroshenko said the senator was "a great personality"   
   and recalled how, during a 2016 visit to eastern Ukraine, he had refused   
   to duck out of visiting troops in an area under artillery fire.   
      
   "Ukraine has many friends, but no one will replace John McCain," wrote   
   Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin on Twitter.   
      
   Ukrainians including an aide to the interior minister backed the idea of   
   renaming a street in Kiev after McCain.   
      
   By contrast, Russian President Vladimir Putin has not issued any message   
   of condolence and some Kremlin-loyal officials gave extremely hostile   
   reactions.   
      
   "About McCain's death, I can say the following: as a good Christian I   
   wish all irreconcilable enemies of my Motherland peace and calm - in the   
   afterlife, naturally," editor-in-chief of Kremlin-funded RT television   
   Margarita Simonyan wrote on Twitter.   
      
   Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the Senate's international affairs   
   committee, wrote on Facebook that McCain's "only ideology" was "protect   
   your own and beat up the others."   
      
   However some Russian politicians showed their respect.   
      
   Leonid Slutsky, head of the lower house of parliament's foreign affairs   
   committee, told the RIA Novosti state news agency that McCain was a   
   "courageous and principled person."   
      
   Oleg Morozov, a member of the Senate's foreign affairs committee, on   
   Facebook praised McCain's frankness.   
      
   "An enemy died, salute him for honest enmity, for honest hatred, for   
   refusal to reconcile. Others dissemble. He said what he thought."   
      
   He added: "Let God receive his dark soul and determine its future."   
      
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