The number of political prisoners in Belarus is growing with now near 1,450; up from 1,000 in February. The war in Ukraine and solidarity of Belarusians and civil society with Ukraine grant new reasons for the Lukashenka’s regime to target ordinary civilians. Even civic activism and basic right of freedom of expression online are under heavy scrutiny and prosecution.
Last week was a busy one for pro-Kremlin disinformers, as they have had to juggle between the EU's assistance mission to Ukraine, MH17 verdict, energy prices, and much more.
Two Polish citizens lost their lives because of Russia’s continuing military aggression against Ukraine and their reckless missile strike campaign against civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
Russia has forcibly deported millions of Ukrainians to Russia. But Pro-Kremlin outlets insist that they have been ‘evacuated’ for their own safety
In Kremlin minds, things are unchanged: ‘the US wants to destroy Russia’, ‘Zelenskyy is a Nazi aiming to please the West, ready to drop dirty bombs’. War is glorious and becoming the new normal in Russia.
Russia deployed disinformation targeting Ukraine throughout Russia's war of aggression to advance its geopolitical goals and distract the world from the atrocities Russia has committed.
Kremlin propagandists pretend that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has nothing to do with any bad consequences of their attack. Instead, they blame Western sanctions for the economic difficulties that their own actions have brought about.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views the information environment as a mechanism for reshaping the geopolitical landscape in ways conducive to the party-state’s projection of political power.
Russia’s tradition of dehumanising and inciting hatred toward Ukrainians started long before the country’s 2014 military aggression against Ukraine. In fact, Russia’s imperial past and its more recent foreign policy have never accepted a sovereign Ukraine’s existence.
Last week was a busy one for pro-Kremlin disinformers, as they have had to juggle between the EU's assistance mission to Ukraine, MH17 verdict, energy prices, and much more.
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