Context

As the systematic and cynical instrumentalisation of migrants for political purposes by the Lukashenka regime continues, so do disinformation and information manipulation campaigns.

Moldova’s gas pipes were losing pressure while Russian political pressure, in the form of threats to cut off gas deliveries, was rising on the recently elected, pro-reform Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) government.

The anti-vaccination movement in Ukraine uses a non-transparent messenger for coordination. Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 3 million COVID-19 cases have been registered in Ukraine, and more than 75 thousand Ukrainians have died from the coronavirus.

Months-long attempts by Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime to instrumentalise migration for political purposes recently reached a new alarming dimension.

The Belarusian state propaganda machine launches attacks in support of the regime’s cynical instrumentalisation of migrants.

The Lukashenka regime’s goal is painfully clear: there can be no independent media. EUvsDisinfo has been regularly monitoring how the illegitimate Lukashenka regime abuses its legal system and the security apparatus to shut down the very few remaining independent voices.

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For more than 20 months, since late January 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak has been among the dominant topics in the pro-Kremlin flow of disinformation.

The last week the pro-Kremlin media denigrated an uncomfortable opposition leader, a whistle-blower, and multiple international organisations.