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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…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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Russian Aggression

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…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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Hybrid War

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…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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War in Donbas

More evidence of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine discovered by digital sleuth as Russia keeps denying its involvement

Meanwhile, extensive evidence suggests otherwise: multiple types of exclusively Russian military equipment was documented in the Donbas, Russian…

byYuri Zoria

Language map of the western part of the Odesa Oblast (province) of Ukraine (Source: Wikipedia)

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Bessarabia’s ‘ethnographic Harlequin’ in a regional perspective

Ukraine’s ethnic-Bulgarian minority is concentrated in the southwestern part of Ukraine’s Odesa province, an area often if somewhat…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

The Ukrainan and Bulgarian national flags displayed in Bolhrad, Ukraine (Photo: G.S. Rakovsky School)

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Bulgaria takes issue with Ukraine over minority in Odesa province

The parliament of Bulgaria has adopted a declaration criticizing Ukraine’s policy toward the Bulgarian minority in Odesa province…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Back to basics: Ukraine, revisionism, and russophobia in this week’s propaganda narratives

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Hybrid War

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…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

Bulgarian-Ukrainian Rada deputy Anton Kisse (Photo by Vadim Chupryna via wikimedia.org)

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International

Moscow orchestrates controversy between Bulgaria and Ukraine to weaken Kyiv

Last week (May 20), pro-Russian legislative deputies in Bulgaria and pro-Moscow ethnic-Bulgarian politicians in Ukraine protested a decision…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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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…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

Muscovites celebrating May 9, the Day of Victory in the so-called Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, in 2019. Russia prefers to forget that it started the World War II on the German side in September 1939 by invading and partitioning Poland with Hitler's Germany. (Photo: dsnews.ua)

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Putin moving from ‘Great Victory’ to hostility to entire world – and young Russians are ready to follow him, Ilchenko says

Just as “Crimea is Ours” paled with time as a mobilizing tool, so too Vladimir Putin’s “Great Victory”…

byPaul A. Goble

Capitalising on the Coronavirus Conspiracist Frenzy

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Hybrid War

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…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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A compromise with Russia that respects core Western principles is an illusion – James Sherr

Six years after Russia annexed Crimea, a number of articulate and influential people in the West have become…

byThe Insider

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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…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

Policemen enforcing COVID-19 regime in Yalta on the Russia-annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, May 2020

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Russian occupiers treating Crimeans during pandemic even worse than Moscow does Russian Federation residents, Kirillova says

The Putin regime’s failure to provide adequate support for Russians it has ordered to remain at home in…

byPaul A. Goble

COVID-19 narratives high but declining, Ukraine on the rise in Russian propaganda

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Hybrid War

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…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

E40 waterway is to go through Poland, Belarus and Ukraine and to connect the Baltic and the Black Seas

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West, Russia face off in Belarus over Baltic–Black Sea waterway project

Plans for a new Baltic–Black Sea waterway, passing through Ukraine, Belarus and Poland, have the potential to revolutionize…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

New stories, old plots: how pro-Kremlin disinfo outlets capitalize on COVID-19 outbreak

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Hybrid War

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…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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Stalin-era city names to be used in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk as part of “great victory” cult

“Voroshilovgrad” and “Stalino” On 16 April, Leonid Pasechnik, head of the Russian occupation administration of Luhansk, signed a…

byYuri Zoria

Joint military exercises of the Russian North and Black Sea Fleets. 9 January 2020. Photo: kremlin.ru

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Moscow continues hybrid war against Ukraine despite pandemic, Danilyuk says

Moscow may be unlikely to launch any major new offensive against Ukraine while the pandemic is going on,…

byPaul A. Goble

Vaccine hesitancy and pro-Kremlin opportunism: top-5 COVID-19 conspiracies

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Hybrid War

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…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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