Russia's MO is basically to tell absurd lies and whine about American hypocrisy, both through official channels and unofficially online. That's it. If you were reading the comment sections of newspaper articles during the annexation of Crimea, you probably remember the flood of posts expressing bizarre pro-Russian views which were entirely inconsistent with any significant Western political alignment.

This stuff is pretty easy to spot and acknowledge for what it is. Anything beyond that I would generally take as people's honest opinions.