Disinfo: Due to a very high decline in Lithuania’s population, the country will be depopulated in 20 years

Summary

The population decline in Lithuania is so rapid that virtually no people will remain in the country in twenty years. Hence, Lithuania will not need any nuclear energy sector as kerosene lamps will suffice for the remaining people.

Disproof

This message is consistent with pro-Kremlin narrative about the socio-economic and demographic degradation in the Baltic states because of their membership of the EU. See earlier disinformation case alleging that the Baltic states are dying because they chose not to be with Russia.

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Reported in: Issue 148
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 26/04/2019
Language/target audience: Belarus
Country: Lithuania
Keywords: Nuclear issues, Baltic states
Outlet: Sputnik Belarus

There is a Civil War in Ukraine

The worst thing is, there is a civil war in Ukraine. […] The conflict has run through the whole of Ukraine.

May 03, 2019

Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation about the war in Ukraine.

Russia provoked the war in Ukraine, and it is therefore not a civil war.

There is no evidence for accusations there was an alleged “occupation” of the Crimean peninsula in 2014

The Crimea had decided to reunite with Russia by referendum in 2014.

May 03, 2019

Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative on the annexation of Crimea claiming that Crimean citizens chose to rejoin Russia through a legal referendum.

No international body recognises the so-called referendum, announced 27th of February 2014, and held on 16th of March 2014.The European Union does not recognise, and continues to strongly condemn, this violation of international law, which remains a challenge to the international security order.

President of Georgia does not willingly express opinions on the separatist regions

The new president of Georgia does not willingly express opinions on issues such as separatism prevailing in a large area of the country; the existence of problems like Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and the need to restore the territorial integrity of the country.

May 02, 2019

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Quite opposite to the claim made in the article, Georgian President Salome Zourabishvili recently stated that Russia's decade long military occupation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia has failed to break the national will to maintain sovereignty and achieve European Union and NATO accession. "It's a victory for Georgia and not for Russia."

“In recent years, we have gone through similar tragedies. We are now experiencing what it means for our country’s territories to be occupied – what it means to have our country’s territorial integrity violated,” Zurabishvili said in her meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.