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On 28 September, President Maia Sandu and the pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) scored a landslide victory in the Moldovan parliamentary elections. The PAS won more than 50 per cent of the vote, giving the party control of the parliament and hence giving Moldova a firm pro-EU orientation. The victory came despite a massive pro-Russian FIMI campaign that targeted Sandu and the PAS.
Russia is using influencers to lure young African women with promises of study and work abroad. Instead it funnels them into drone factories that feed Russia’s war against Ukraine.
The United Nations stands as a symbol of the shared hope for a better, more unified world. Russia’s abductions of Ukrainian children are an insult to that vision. The Kremlin may lie, but the world knows the truth.
As Moldova prepares for its parliamentary elections on September 28, the country is facing an unprecedented wave of hybrid threats and FIMI. The Kremlin-backed propaganda is amplified through media outlets and social media networks tied to the so-called Matryoshka network, distributing fake content to erode support for President Maia Sandu and derail Moldova’s path toward EU integration.
As the Kremlin spews disinformation narratives attacking Ukraine and the European Union, Russia also conducts drone operations against Ukraine, with some drones crossing into EU and NATO member states such as Poland.
On 9 September, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) opened its 80th session with familiar themes: peace, development, and human rights. Enter the Kremlin’s propaganda machine, loudly proclaiming support for those noble ideals while working tirelessly to subvert them.
Cases in the EUvsDisinfo database focus on messages in the international information space that are identified as providing a partial, distorted, or false depiction of reality and spread key pro-Kremlin messages. This does not necessarily imply, however, that a given outlet is linked to the Kremlin or editorially pro-Kremlin, or that it has intentionally sought to disinform. EUvsDisinfo publications do not represent an official EU position, as the information and opinions expressed are based on media reporting and analysis of the East Stratcom Task Force.
