More trials and political prisoners. More labelling of ‘extremists’, more repentance videos. Lukashenka has promised the ‘strictest clean-up’ of ‘traitors’ and authorities follow suit against leading voices.
While Putin was making his way to the illegally annexed Crimea to throw a PR stunt, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him.
EUvsDisinfo talks to Bill Browder about disinformation, what it takes to keep up the fight against corruption and abuse and how to hold Russia accountable
On the battlefield and in the information space, Russia is busy manipulating. Sugar-coating its missile attacks; blaming the EU or Ukraine for global food insecurity; or jailing critics of the Mariupol bombings a year ago.
A POW is executed on camera. As usual, Kremlin outlets try to confuse the world with a myriad of contradictory lies to blur who is responsible.
One year of draconic censorship laws has terrified Russian society. Multi-year prison sentences and thousands of court cases induce fear and self-censorship. Practically all independent journalists have either left Russia or closed down.
Kremlin disinformation claims the world supports the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The world responds with resounding laughter to these obvious lies.
Removing sanctions would immensely benefit the Kremlin. That is why its disinformation network produces lies and conspiracies with the goal of sowing discord and giving the impression that sanctions are ineffective.
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.
While Putin was making his way to the illegally annexed Crimea to throw a PR stunt, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him.
Disinformation Review
From Crimea to the Hague
