In this case you should name the source in Russia, which has injected this news into the finnish TV news brief. ""Russians" failed to identify" sounds like "Finns said that some leaders of Africa obliged to deliver the bananas to Finland free of charge, but Finns failed to articulate the names of those leaders". I think you can't name the Russian source if not to count some finnish journalist, quartered in Moscow "who heard it with his own ears".
Most likely this case is typical. Your media invent the "news" which are suitable and destinated exactly for the sort of people who feels free and normal to greet the stranger with the insulting foul tongue. You are in delight - that means they guessed the taste of their audience right.