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Disinfo: 10 million Ukrainians have to work abroad because of the government’s policies

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  • Reported in: Issue 155
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 10/06/2019
  • Language/target audience: Russian, Ukrainian
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Keywords: Ukraine, migration, economy, Economic difficulties
  • Outlet: Nash TV Channel (1:37-1:41)
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The Russian language is changing the world

Germans have started to give their newborn Russian names – Dimitri and Olga being the most popular – and US suggests to declare Russian the second most important language. The Russian language is changing the world.

June 11, 2019
Disproof

A misrepresentation of quotes. The German article referred to by Tsargrad presents a short list of ''the prettiest Russian names''. Neither Dmitri, nor Olga or any other distinctly Russian name is anywhere near the most popular names in Germany, according to German statistics.

The claim that the US suggests Russian to be declared "the second most important language" is also a misrepresentation of a quote of a representative of NAFSA, the US National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, suggesting means of attracting US students to learn Russian.

Ukraine is a source of cheap raw materials and an anti-Russian springboard

In 2014 Ukrainian nationalists, supported by radicals, organized a coup. They captured the whole state and unleashed a civil conflict. It turned out that Western masters have little interest in Ukraine’s domestic politics because the EU got the main thing: a source of cheap raw materials, labour force and an open market. Furthermore, the EU destroyed competitive branches of Ukraine’s industry. In turn, the US received a new anti-Russia springboard with a frozen military conflict and, potentially, a new buyer of liquified gas.

June 11, 2019
Disproof

This is disinformation consistent with a collection of recurring pro-Kremlin narratives alleging a coup d’état in Ukraine and civil war, abandoned Ukraine,  Ukraine's hyper-dependence on the West, and Ukraine as an anti-Russian project.

The spontaneous onset of massive Euromaidan protests was a reaction of the Ukrainian population to the sudden departure of the President Yanukovych from the Association Agreement with the European Union and to the brutal dispersal of student protest actions on 30 November 2013. The 2014 events cannot be named a coup d'état because, after Yanukovych's escape, the new President was elected in free and fair elections. According to the OSCE, "the people of Ukraine had the opportunity to genuinely express their will at the ballot box".

Former Ukrainian government is responsible for 13,000 deaths in Donbas

The former government of Ukraine and the so-called new ones, who came to power on the wave of Maidan, took 13,000 lives.

June 11, 2019
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Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation about war in Ukraine.

It is true that, according to the official data, provided by the United Nations, in a five-year war in Eastern Ukraine, more than 13,000 people have been killed. However, the Ukrainian government did not initiate the conflict. The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court stated that “the information available suggests that the situation within the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol amounts to an international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation". 

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