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Disinfo: The West conducts one big campaign to spoil the World Cup in Russia

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The West tries to spoil the World Cup in different ways. Simulated murder of journalist Arkady Babchenko in Ukraine, the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the UK and accusations that Russia downed the Malaysian Boeing in 2014 are one big campaign planned by someone.

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Conspiracy theory. Recurring disinformation on World Cup. euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=world+cup&disinfo_issue=&date=,

The story establishes an artificial link between Ukrainian authorities' faking journalist Arkady Babchenko's death www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/31/arkady-babchenko-details-staged-murder-plot-russia-ukraine, , Salisbury attack and MH17. Logical fallacies are frequently used in pro-Kremlin disinformation. medium.com/dfrlab/logical-fallacies-fuel-kremlin-disinfo-e4185bb455e6,

Pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign aims to distract the audience from the facts available regarding the Skripal poisoning and MH17.

For further debunks see: euvsdisinfo.eu/report/yulia-skripals-statement-like-a-hostage-video/, , euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=mh17&disinfo_issue=&date=,

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  • Reported in: Issue 110
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 01/06/2018
  • Language/target audience: Russian
  • Country: Russia
  • Keywords: Arkady Babchenko, World Cup, Sergei Skripal, West, MH17
  • Outlet: Mesto Vstrechi @NTV, 1:00
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Babchenko’s fake murder means that Russians might eventually turn out to be right about their theory on the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine.

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Logical fallacy frequently used in pro-Kremlin disinformation. medium.com/dfrlab/logical-fallacies-fuel-kremlin-disinfo-e4185bb455e6,

The story refers to Ukrainian authorities and how they faked journalist Arkady Babchenko's death and creates an artificial link between it and MH17. www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/31/arkady-babchenko-details-staged-murder-plot-russia-ukraine,

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Recurring theme for conspiracy theories about the West in Georgia euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=Georgia&disinfo_issue=&date=,

“King Rat” is actually the title of a 1962 novel by James Clavell from Britain. The plot of the conspiracy on how rats eat each other in the cage is taken exactly from this book. Further debunking by Myth Detector.

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