COVID-19 conspiracies, WWII revisionism, schadenfreude at US protests: Russian propaganda last week
Last week’s cases take us on a frenzied ride through several topics that have been preoccupying the pro-Kremlin…
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Russian embassy calls Baltic States privileged under Soviet occupation
This time, the kick-off came from the Twitter account of the Russian embassy in Estonia, sharing an article…
An anti-American bandwagon: Russian propaganda focused on the US last week
With the US caught firmly in the global spotlight for the ongoing racial injustice protests sweeping the nation,…
“Let’s get the popcorn ready” – Russian tv covers US protests
Organized protests “I am watching and I am happy […]. The US is reaping what it sowed,” Russian…
Secret labs and George Soros: Kremlin’s COVID-19 disinformation in the EU Eastern Partnership countries
Secret labs For years, pro-Kremlin disinformation sources have been exploiting the false trope of secret Western-sponsored military laboratories…
Racial injustice protests and coronovirus conspiracies in focus of Russian propaganda this week
Racial injustice protests: a ploy for colour revolution Several cases this week attempt to link the protests with…
Turns out Putin’s man in Ukraine co-owns country’s most popular TV channel
Viktor Medvedchuk is an openly pro-Russian politician who heads the political council of the party "Opposition Platform -…
US protests in Russian propaganda: “A red, white and blue All-American Maidan”
One of the most influential Russian English-language outlets is SouthFront. EUvsDisinfo has described how the outlet can be…
Back to basics: Ukraine, revisionism, Russophobia top Kremlin’s propaganda narratives again
That’s not to say that we’ve seen the last of coronavirus-related disinformation – far from it. COVID-19 will…
How pro-Kremlin outlets employed Satan to prop up disinformation efforts
Fort Russ News is a US-based website, established by a think tank in Serbia and with a strong…
Russian propaganda keeps disseminating COVID-19 conspiracies
Few developments in recent history have so suddenly and ruthlessly laid bare the vulnerabilities and fragility of contemporary…
In the shadow of revised history: Kremlin’s war on remembrance continues
Attacking the local authorities in Prague, the pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets chose to ignore the historical facts, as they…
COVID-19 narratives high but declining, Ukraine on the rise in Russian propaganda
As EUvsDisinfo wrote last week, the pro-Kremlin media is slowly turning away from the virus and it seems…
New stories, old plots: how pro-Kremlin disinfo outlets capitalize on COVID-19 outbreak
The first case in the Disinformation Database with this claim was detected 29 January, when Russian news agency…
Vaccine hesitancy and pro-Kremlin opportunism: top-5 COVID-19 conspiracies
The anti-vaxxer trope saw notable growth, beginning in mid-March when several pro-Kremlin outlets published an article from the…
EU watchdog for disinformation debunks 8,000 cases in 6 years
It likely comes as no surprise that a significant proportion of these latest thousand cases relates to the…
Curve of Russian propaganda on coronavirus goes up, narratives recur and multiply
Lies are easier to remember if you stick to the same stories. Professional journalists need to check facts,…
Russia keeps throwing coronavirus disinformation at the wall to see what sticks
Comparing the cases on the coronavirus published between January 22 and March 25 with the caseload from this…
Russian propaganda spreads conspiracy that coronavirus could be designed to kill elderly Italians
A Sputnik article published on 15 March promoted an entire catalog of unfounded theories about the origin of…
Disinformation that can kill: coronavirus-related narratives of Kremlin propaganda
This dangerous game has gone on for two months now. The first piece of disinformation we recorded on…