Moscow Times makes fool of Guardian

The Guardian is famous for its April Fools from its special report on the island of San Serriffe to its spoof last Wednesday claiming that The Guardian was the first newspaper to move to Twitter.
But it seems the biter has been bitten.
Readers' editor Siobhain Butterworth notes today: "A correction also needs to be published to an item headed "Wheels of Power" (4 April), which said that, according to reports in Russia, the ZiL limousine President Dmitry Medvedev was bringing to London is so tough it can survive a small nuclear attack "if the wind is blowing in a certain direction". The original story, in the Moscow Times, also said: "Officials at the factory where Medvedev's limousine was assembled were so confident in the level of safety provided by the vehicle that they placed the designers inside the car while soldiers shot rocket-propelled grenades at it - a tradition that dates back to the Stalin era." The Guardian journalist who wrote the story had failed to notice that the report in the Moscow Times was published on 1 April."