EU East StratCom Task Force

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The EU’s East StratCom Task Force was set up by EU High Representative Federica Mogherini in 2015, in response to a request from all 28 EU Heads of Government to “address Russia’s ongoing disinformation campaigns”. It is a team of eleven communications and Russian language experts, who also seek to improve communication on EU policies towards the Eastern Neighbourhood and to strengthen media plurality in the region, especially in the Russian language. The Task Force’s flagship products are its weekly Disinformation Review of pro-Kremlin disinformation stories and its social media accounts @EUvsDisinfo and EU vs Disinformation.

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The Kremlin’s playbook: fabricating pretext to invade Ukraine – more myths

Amid the continuous military escalation at Ukraine’s borders, Russian state-controlled media continue to cultivate disinformation narratives about imminent…

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Disinformation on current Russia-Ukraine conflict: 7 myths debunked

From its illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014 and its ongoing military aggression against Ukraine, Russia…

As Russia keeps raising the stakes in its gamble on the border with Ukraine, Ukraine is once again the main target of efforts to dismiss, distort, distract and dismay.

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All roads lead to Ukraine: how Russia uses disinformation to support its efforts on the ground

Ukraine is no infrequent target of pro-Kremlin disinformation. Out of the more than 13,500 cases identified, cataloged, exposed, and…

Russian propaganda main target in 2021Ukraine remained says EU vs Disinfo

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Ukraine remains main target of pro-Kremlin disinformation in 2021: EU disinfo watchdog

Ukraine remains Russian propaganda’s top target Roughly one-third of all the recorded cases of pro-Kremlin disinformation collected by…

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Belarusian propaganda machine launches attacks to support regime’s instrumentalization of migrants

Against this backdrop, the EU Commission has called for EU member states to approve an extended sanctions regime against…

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Pro-Kremlin media scaremongering about “threatened sovereignty” this week: disinformation review

COVID-19 continues to be a popular topic for the producers of disinformation: This week EU vs Disinfo documented…

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Disinforming aftermath of curbing disinformation: Russian propaganda targets YouTube’s action against RT

Last week, YouTube deleted RT’s German-language channels over violations of the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy and its terms of service.…

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From hybrid war to buying weapons: Belarus as week’s primary target of Russian propaganda

Disinformation cases collected this week consider, among others, Belarus. They include rather uneasy narratives such as hybrid war facing the…

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Exploiting the crisis in Afghanistan: Russian and Chinese media draw parallels with Ukraine and Taiwan

Almost in unison, Russian and Chinese state-controlled media outlets continue to draw direct (and false) parallels between Afghanistan…

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Trading socialism for chewing gum: Kremlin building military doctrine on self-deception

The Kremlin leadership has cultivated a special brand of “Dolchstosslegende” since the collapse of the Soviet Union 30…

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Kremlin’s chronic case of Anglophobia: mental war and Anglo-Zionist empire among week’s propaganda narratives

Russian official documents on security policy usually identify the US as the Bad Guy in international relations. Recently,…

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Ukraine, Crimean Platform, and the Witches’ Sabbath: this week’s Russian propaganda

The fact that seven years after the events unraveled on the Maidan square in Kyiv the Kremlin media…

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Afghanistan and Lithuanian-Belarusian border crises: this week’s Russian disinformation targets

As the international community reckons with the fall of Kabul and Afghanistan itself into the Taliban’s hands, the…

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A year of disinformation in Belarus: Infographic

Disinformation is at the heart of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime. The illegitimate president of Belarus has been clinging to power based…

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