The op-ed also tells that Crimea is the favorite destination of these “non-economic refugees,” as the author labels them.
A migrating story about moral migrants
In order to support the claim about the alleged moral migrants, a local politician in Crimea is quoted as saying that the peninsula “recently received 1,500 appeals from Germany alone.”
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A quick search into the history of this figure takes us back to an RIA Novosti report from 2015. The figure has later reappeared in reporting from, among others, RT’s Russian Service and TV Zvezda.
Loyalty to the Kremlin line
The author of Life’s piece demonstrates an impressive degree of loyalty to the Kremlin’s narratives by managing to incorporate in one short piece not just one, but two different disinformation narratives.
One of these narratives will insist that Crimea enjoys broad recognition among Europeans as a part of Russia, for example when state media outlets cover visits to Crimea by NGO groups or private individuals as if these were official representatives of their countries.
The other narrative is the depiction of Europe as disintegrating in moral decay. This narrative fosters stories about animal brothels in Denmark; about Europe as “the kingdom of gays;” allegations that pedophilia is “a European value” and even a national family tradition in one particular European country.
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- Five-year-long disinformation campaign didn’t make Crimea Russian
- Crimea’s Russians who backed Anschluss now turning against Moscow, Vasiliyev says
- Russia’s deportation of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars from occupied Crimea a “neo-imperial policy tool” – report
- First int’l human rights mission since occupation reports on how Russia crushes opposition in Crimea
- Russia prepared to occupy Crimea back in 2010 and other things we learned from Yanukovych’s treason trial
- New UNGA resolution: Crimea temporarily occupied by Russia, Russia must release political prisoners
- Russia presents random foreigners brought to occupied Crimea as official delegations
- Ukraine-related narratives dominate Russian propaganda
