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Disinfo: Censorship in the Baltic states

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  • Reported in: Issue 95
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 18/01/2018
  • Outlet language(s) Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia
  • Keywords: Freedom of speech
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George Soros wants another change of government in Ukraine

The West demands that Ukraine creates a high-level anti-corruption court, otherwise the country will be denied access to USD 800 million the Poroshenko administration has been promised. Western institutions have made ultimatum-like declarations, trying to force Ukraine to do something it opposes. Poroshenko hopes that he would receive the money anyway.

Jan 17, 2018
Disproof

Repeating pro-Kremlin disinformation about George Soros. Petro Poroshenko submitted a draft law on the anti-corruption court on December 22, 2017. International institutions did indeed criticise the submitted draft bill for multiple reasons, most importantly for not following the Venice Commissions recommendations. Poroshenko stated he is open to having the draft amended during the second reading in Parliament. There is no proof that Ukrainians were against creating an anti-corruption court.

Putin turns out to be the most popular politician on the Latvian TV in 2017

President of Russia Vladimir Putin became the most popular politician on Latvian television in 2017, his New Year’s message was watched by 280 thousand people in Latvia.

Jan 16, 2018
Disproof

The story is based on the viewership data for the top 40 TV programmes in 2017 that gained the highest TV audience in Latvia, provided by TNS Kantar Latvia. Putin's New Year speech had the TV audience of 144K on RTR Planeta Baltija and the TV audience of 135K on PBK. Same study shows that LV President's New Year address was viewed by 196K people on PBK and LV Prime Minister's New Year address by 178K people. In fact, viewership data of TV programmes is not sufficient to draw conclusions about popularity of politicians that take part in them.

50 thousand people would have got killed in Donbas if Russia did not intervene in Ukraine in 2014

If our country [Russia] did not intervene that spring of the year of 2014, not ten thousand would have got killed there, but fifty thousand.

Jan 16, 2018
Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation. The human rights missions that travelled to Ukraine in 2014 did not find evidence that the Russian minority would have been in any danger: 1. The Advisory Committee’s Ad hoc Report on the situation of national minorities in Ukraine, adopted on 1 April 2014, Council of Europe; 2. Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 15 June 2014; 4. Statement by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities on her Recent Visit to Ukraine, 4 April 2014, Statement of 19 September 2014