Disinfo: Colour revolutions provoked by the US and NATO created migration crisis

Summary

The wave of "colour revolutions" provoked by the United States and its allies in recent decades, as well as by NATO military actions deployed to "fight terrorism", has forced millions of people to leave their homes.

Disproof

Recurring disinformation narrative from pro-Kremlin outlets about colour revolutions orchestrated by the West. This claim attempts to diminish the responsibility of Belarus for the situation on the EU-Belarus borders.

“Colour revolutions” is a term used by pro-Kremlin outlets to depict popular protests that have occurred in recent years in various countries and that have arisen spontaneously for various reasons related to controversial domestic policies or serious social issues, such as the protests in Catalonia, Ukraine with Euromaidan, Georgia, Belarus, Hong Kong as well as the protests in Russia.

The border crisis was caused by Belarus as a response to EU sanctions imposed on Minsk for its oppressive measures against the political opposition. There is plenty of evidence that the Belarusian authorities have instigated the ongoing tensions at the EU borders.

The president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said that situation on the EU-Belarusian border is not a bilateral issue of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus but a hybrid attack against the whole EU. The vice-president of the European Commission and high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy (HRVP) Josep Borrell stressed that responsibility for the migration crisis falls on the Lukashenka regime.

Investigations have revealed that the Belarusian regime is encouraging people from conflict zones in Africa and the Middle East to come to Minsk. They are driven to border countries such as Lithuania and Poland after that and left there to ask for asylum status.

See our articles on the Belarus migrants situation here and here.

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  • Reported in: Issue 267
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 10/11/2021
  • Article language(s) Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: US
  • Keywords: Colour revolutions, Migration crisis, migration, NATO
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This is a recurring disinformation narrative from pro-Kremlin outlets, claiming that NATO is a hostile military bloc whose main objective is to inflict harm on Russia.

NATO is a defensive alliance, whose primary aims are to maintain peace and safeguard the independence, security and territorial integrity of its members. Moreover, NATO poses no threat to Russia. During the Warsaw summit in July 2016, NATO has made it clear that "The Alliance does not seek confrontation and poses no threat to Russia". This was also reaffirmed in the Brussels Summit Communiqué of 14 June 2021.

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Recurring disinformation narrative from pro-Kremlin outlets about the migration situation on the EU-Belarus borders.

The situation was manufactured by Belarus as a response to EU sanctions imposed on the Lukashenka regime for its oppressive measures against the political opposition. There is plenty of evidence that the Belarusian authorities have instigated the ongoing irregular migration flows to the EU borders via Belarus.

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Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about NATO and its military exercises.

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