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Disinfo: NATO sponsoring colour revolutions in post-Soviet states

Summary

NATO is preparing colour revolutions in a number of post-Soviet countries, which will result in coups d’état and installation of Western-friendly regimes in those states.

Disproof

Recurring disinformation narrative invariably casting popular uprisings in the post-Soviet states and elsewhere as regime-change devices, including those in Georgia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Armenia; and portraying Russia as a non-interfering global actor encircled by Russophobes. Accordingly, the agents of regime change behind mass protests around the world include, but are not limited to, the US, NATO, the CIA, the EU, the West in general, "certain forces," and George Soros. No evidence is ever given to support these claims; in fact, the lack of proof is the very foundation of "Big Conspiracy" narratives, which authoritarian governments make abundant use of.

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Sputnik English (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 157
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 02/07/2019
  • Language/target audience: English
  • Country: Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus
  • Keywords: EU/NATO enlargement, Encircling Russia, Anti-Russian, Puppets, Russophobia, NATO, Conspiracy theory

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Cases in the EUvsDisinfo database focus on messages in the international information space that are identified as providing a partial, distorted, or false depiction of reality and spread key pro-Kremlin messages. This does not necessarily imply, however, that a given outlet is linked to the Kremlin or editorially pro-Kremlin, or that it has intentionally sought to disinform. EUvsDisinfo publications do not represent an official EU position, as the information and opinions expressed are based on media reporting and analysis of the East Stratcom Task Force.

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