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April 28, 2021

EEAS SPECIAL REPORT UPDATE: Short Assessment of Narratives and Disinformation Around the COVID-19 Pandemic (UPDATE DECEMBER 2020 - APRIL 2021)

Disinformation around the COVID-19 pandemic, measures taken to contain it, vaccines and their roll-out continues to spread.

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May 20, 2020

EEAS SPECIAL REPORT UPDATE: SHORT ASSESSMENT OF NARRATIVES AND DISINFORMATION AROUND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC (UPDATE 23 APRIL – 18 MAY)

In line with the previous EEAS Special Reports and based on publicly available information, this edition gives an overview of recent developments around COVID-19 related disinformation.

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May 06, 2023

Historical revisionism: ‘Polish imperialism against Ukraine and Belarus’

Apart from Ukraine, Poland is among the Kremlin’s top scapegoats and objects of historical revisionism. In an upside-down mirror of Moscow’s own imperial ambitions actions, Poland has long been smeared as a warmonger and a ‘vassal’ of the US trying to annex parts of Ukraine and Belarus.

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September 20, 2022

KEY NARRATIVES IN PRO-KREMLIN DISINFORMATION

A defining feature of pro-Kremlin disinformation is its repetitiveness. Pro-Kremlin outlets stick to a set of recurring narratives.

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June 03, 2016

Visits to Europe

Image: Vladimir Putin arrives on a visit to Greece. Source: Kremlin.ru President Putin’s recent visit to Greece and Sergey Lavrov’s end-of-May trip to Hungary have provided excellent material for the pro-Kremlin media to bolster its well-known narratives. “Welcomed like superstar” Pro-Kremlin outlets emphasised the thawing relations between Russia and…

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April 23, 2021

Beware of Comfort; the Search for Truth is Messy

We are wired to be seduced by clean stories confirming what we already believe. This is exploited by pro-Kremlin disinformation.

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February 26, 2019

Figure of the Week: 104

Hackers linked to Russian military intelligence have conducted cyberattacks against several European NGOs, targeting 104 employee accounts.

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October 28, 2016

Reverse “Russophobia”

The myth about the West fundamentally disliking Russia and Russians is actively cultivated in pro-Kremlin media.

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March 05, 2022

The Kremlin Counting its Chicken

A case of saying ‘hop’ before the chicken are counted: in the morning of the 26 February, the second day of the Russian attack on Ukraine, state “news agency” Ria Novosti published a victorious article, describing the success of “bringing Ukraine home to Russia”.

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May 27, 2020

“Pure Manipulation of People”

In the reality of COVID-19, more and more Russian journalists denounce disinformation. Now glasnost-era veteran Vladimir Pozner joins the critics.