Rise in anti-Semitism and Nazism in Ukraine, Ukrainian glorification of nationalists – such were the headlines blaring from many pro-Kremlin Russian media at the end of April. These stories were generated by a letter to the US Deputy Secretary of State from 56 congressmen asking that the State Department exert diplomatic pressure on Ukraine and Poland because of what they claim is growing anti-Semitism in those countries. RT in Russian,…
By EU vs Disinfo On Sunday 4 March Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia. On Saturday 7 April, first reports of chemical attack in Douma, Syria, appeared. Medical NGOs have found traces of chemical agents on the victims. Photographs and videos, numerous and mutually reinforcing, have been authenticated. The symptoms of more than 500 patients who presented on the same day of the attack…
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Fake: Ukraine leads in human rights violations; Kyiv recognizes it cannot return Crimea; Ukraine to become an international nuclear dump.
By Polygraph Dmitry Kiselyov Head of Rossiya Segodnya “Literal information bombs! This week was a journalist’s godsend for our military correspondent in Syria, Evgeny Poddubnyy.” Source: Rossiya 1, April 22 FALSE The Russian correspondent falsely claimed the interview was in Douma; it was in a military facility; Photos actually came from the set of a 2016 short film. On April 22, Russian TV presenter Dmitry Kiselyov introduced his audience to…
By EU vs Disinfo “Since the events in Salisbury, we have observed a significant increase in the number of programmes on the RT service that warrant investigation as potential breaches of the Ofcom Broadcasting Code”, the British media regulator, Ofcom, said in a statement issued on Wednesday, 18 April. In a fact sheet attached to the statement titled “Update on the RT Service”, Ofcom explained that “ultimately, we may decide that the…
By EU vs Disinfo A little girl in turquoise t-shirt and pants, a boy and an older man are lying on a vehicle. Their bodies look dead, but at the same time a neat and clean film crew with cameras is surrounding them. What is happening there? The true sad story behind these images – and the people depicted – is that they were falsely presented on Russian state-controlled TV as “new…
By Lukas Andriukaitis, for Integrity Initiative The 2016 US Presidential elections were the final wake-up call for Western countries to grasp the full scope of Russian information warfare. For more than a decade, Russia has been waging (link sends email) an unceasing and far-reaching information campaign against NATO and the Western countries, which were caught by surprise. Meanwhile, the Baltic States have been fighting on the information front (link sends email) since gaining independence in 1990.…
By EU vs Disinfo Located in the far Western corner of the Baltic Sea, Denmark does not appear very often on the radar of the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign. Last week, however, it did. In hindsight, the Russian state-controlled TV station NTV probably now regrets its decision to send a crew to film in Denmark because things did not work out quite as planned; at least not when NTV’s story, like a…
This week Russia’s Foreign Ministry criticized the latest annual US State Department Human Rights report as an “opus full of Russophobic stereotypes” filled with “politicized assessments and crude ideological clichés” against Russia. The Foreign Ministry’s statement became big news for the Kremlin propagandist media with RT Gazeta.ru and NTV all featuring stories denouncing the State Department for preparing the report in an exclusively negative manner with regard to Russia while…
Topics of the Week British Parliament moves toward an effective and comprehensive investigation of Russian influence, setting an example for other national parliaments to expose and counter disinformation and influence operations. The Democratic Party has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Russia, Trump, and Wikileaks for carrying out an illegal conspiracy to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The US and British governments have issued a joint alert warning businesses about…
