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in English
In August 2020, President Putin surprised the world by claiming to have approved the first vaccine against COVID-19. The vaccine was aptly named โ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐๐๐ป๐ถ๐ธ ๐ฉโ, with the letter โVโ standing for Victory and reminiscent of the so-called โSputnik shockโ caused by the first Soviet satellite.
The new kind of โraceโ for superiority in combating the pandemics was accompanied by a information offensive and aimed at persuading as many states as possible across the world to purchase and produce the Russian vaccine. Many states in and outside of the EU exhibited strong interest in administering and producing Sputnik V.
A bit over a year after the launch of Sputnik V, MEP viola von Cramon presents a ๐๐๐๐ฑ๐ commissioned by the GREENS/EFA Group and conducted by Dr. Susanne Spahn to examine the Russian media campaign and its effect on six targeted countries.
An analysis explores the way Russian state-owned media RT and Sputnik/SNA present information and use methods of disinformation in the examples of Germany, France, Great Britain, Serbia, Slovakia and Kazakhstan.
After billions of spent Euros and immense media and political offensive, ๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐บ๐น๐ถ๐ป ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐๐๐ป๐ถ๐ธ ๐ฉ ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐?
Commissioned by:
Viola von Cramon, Member of the European Parliament
Author:
Dr. Susanne Spahn, Historian of Eastern Europe and political scientist
Berlin, September 1, 2021
