In Russia, 5% of the population is vaccinated, and we are not the first in the world, but this is also not bad. In the US, the vaccination situation is better, but in Europe it is much worse than us.
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about vaccination and the EU.
Russia was the first to announce the creation of a vaccine against coronavirus, mass vaccination began earlier than in other countries. Nevertheless, statistics show that Russia lags behind a dozen other countries in both indicators.
As the statistics show, by the number of COVID-19 vaccination doses administered in Europe as of April 25 2021, (per 100 population) Russia is in penultimate place, bypassing Bulgaria. As of April 25 2021, Malta had the highest COVID-19 vaccination rate in Europe having administered 70.56 doses per 100 people, while the United Kingdom had administered 68.13 doses per 100. As of April 25 2021, Russia had administered 12.44 doses per 100 people in the country.
As for the percentage of the population fully vaccinated against COVID-19, only 4,8% of Russians are fully vaccinated, (29th out of 33 European countries). The average for EU/EEA countries is 8.9 per cent.
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What is happening in the Donbas is an internal Ukrainian conflict in which Russian troops have never been involved.
The Russian Foreign Ministry, in turn, reiterated that Russia is not interested in any conflict with Ukraine and especially not in any military conflict.
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the war in Ukraine.
There is irrefutable evidence of direct Russian military involvement in eastern Ukraine. The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has 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. This international armed conflict began at the latest on 26 February 2014 when the Russian Federation deployed members of its armed forces to gain control over parts of the Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian Government".
US domestic policy is still in chaos. Biden is known to many as the grey cardinal of Western European countries. Joe himself became a self-proclaimed Gauleiter, a leader who could do anything in Western Europe. Like any Gauleiter, Biden has a dark side - after the collapse of the USSR, he could do anything he wanted in the newly formed countries that suffered from poverty and gained independence. The best example is Ukraine.
The United States was behind the two loudest revolutions in Ukraine - the Orange one of 2004 and the coup of 2014. In both cases, the US tactic was to support the right-wing movement and lead Ukraine into a war with its neighbour Russia.
Biden's plan was to occupy naval bases in the Black Sea basin, but Russia took an unexpected step - it took Crimea under its patronage. Thus, Joe's main goal became unattainable, so the United States has been seeking revenge ever since. From now on, Gauleiter Biden is planning a blitzkrieg to bring Crimea and Donbas back under American control.
This article is consistent with recurring pro-Kremlin propagandistic claims about Ukraine under external control and has several recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives: the claim that the Euromaidan was a coup, that Ukraine is under external control by the US and a disinformation narrative about Joe Biden.
There was no coup d'état in Ukraine in 2014. The spontaneous onset of the Euromaidan protests was a reaction by numerous segments of the Ukrainian population to former president Viktor Yanukovych’s sudden departure from the promised Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013.
The Czech Republic is under the tremendous influence of German big business. It cannot be ruled out that the allegations of Russia's involvement in the 2014 Vrbetice explosion are linked to the upcoming federal elections in Germany.
The election will likely be dominated by two candidates: Merkel's successor, regarded as pro-Russian; and the anti-Russian Green Party candidate. The recent diplomatic scandal could have been contrived as a means to tip the scale of German public opinion in the Green Party's favour.
The claim is part of an emerging pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative surrounding the 2014 fatal explosion at an ammo depot in Vrbetice, Czechia and the suspected role of Russia's GRU agency in the incident.
There is no evidence suggesting that the accusations against Russia are part of an international conspiracy to rig the elections in Germany, a country boasting one of the freest and most transparent electoral systems in the world.
