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THEORIES ON PRESIDENTS GETTING VACCINATED

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Kremlin propaganda’s conspiracies claim that Ukrainian, Lithuanian leaders faked their vaccinations

Sputnik’s claims were immediately debunked by Lithuanian journalists, and the case was added to the EUvsDisinfo database. Ms. Grybauskaitė received…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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Russia starts a new wave of disinformation on sanctions

The disinformation related to EU sanctions is not a new phenomenon. There are 420 cases on sanctions in…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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Clinging to “Eternal Russia”: disinformation of the week

Inevitability and eternity Time is one of the most fascinating concepts the mind has come up with. How…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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Grasping at straws: how the pro-Kremlin media tried to legitimize the illegal annexation of Crimea

“Among the many different examples of factually wrong claims that have come out of the Kremlin and media…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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Kremlin’s propaganda in the year of the bull

According to the Chinese zodiac, 12 February 2021 marked the beginning of the Year of the Bull. The…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

The culture of resentment revisited: this week's Russian propaganda

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The culture of resentment revisited: this week’s Russian propaganda

“The Russian word обида – obida – umbrage, resentment, pouting, holding a grudge – has become a core element…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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“Who’s afraid of Russophobia”: this week’s Russian disinformation review

Life is tough when the whole world is pitted against you, or when you think that it is.…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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From the Kremlin without love: disinformation review

This was a busy week for the pro-Kremlin media: besides fending off imaginary “Anglo-Saxon” provocations and disclosing evil…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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Russian propaganda’s techniques: flooding the mind with hyperboles

A recent Oxford University study also sheds light on those that spread disinformation. It found that RT TV channel, a super…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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The future of the pro-Russian project in Ukraine after the ban of Putin pal’s TV channels

Despite the overall positive impact and the enthusiasm of some Ukrainian social networks, Ukraine’s recent sanctioning of three…

byYaroslav Bozhko

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Manufactured support: Kremlin’s pocket journos and Western voices to spread disinformation

Outlets Pretending to be Western Pro-Kremlin media outlets recycle the conspiratorial musings of sympathetic Western bloggers, falsely implying…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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The Kremlin and the art of pointing fingers: national whataboutism as Russia’s state ideology

[boxright] A guide to Russian propaganda. Part 2: Whataboutism [/boxright] “Whataboutism” is a rhetorical device to deflect attention…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

Fake it until you break it: six deception tricks in pro-Kremlin disinformation

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Fake it until you break it: pro-Kremlin disinformation’s six deception tricks

Dr. Barton Whaley, a former expert of military-political deception, created a well-known typology of perception. The underlying assumption: it…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

Seen from Kremlin the Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V has developed into an ideological offensive with a ferocity a bit like a ‘Cold War’ on words. Russian COVID-19 vaccine disinformation and Eastern Partnership countries

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Pro-Kremlin media engaged in Sputnik V vaccine’s offensive marketing in Eastern Partnership countries

Read also: Secret labs and George Soros: Kremlin’s COVID-19 disinformation in the EU Eastern Partnership countries (June 2020)…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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“Carthage must be destroyed”: case study on Kremlin’s attack on democracy

For more than a decade pro-Kremlin propaganda outlets have sought to promote in Europe new ideologies hostile to…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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“Neo-liberalism”: the Kremlin’s new favorite strawman

The rhetorical means of straw men is the Kremlin’s go-to trick in any polemical debate. A straw man is the…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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30 years of “color revolutions”: historical revisionism of Russian propaganda

An otherwise mediocre mouthpiece of state-sponsored pro-Kremlin disinformation, “BaltNews” did something remarkable last November. In just one headline…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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A happy New Year and some sad old tropes: Russian propaganda of first days of 2021

Read also: Over 3000 Russian propaganda cases registered by EU disinformation watchdog in 2020 The War on Sputnik…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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Russian disinformation in 2020: top embarrassing moments

Read also: Ten embarrassing moments in Russian disinformation of 2019 1. A polite poisoner The Navalny case is, of…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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Disinformation figures of the year 2020: from 16 to 117 million

A recurring theme in EU vs Disinfo’s Figure of the Week section this year was Facebook taking down accounts…

byEU East StratCom Task Force