DISINFO: NATO sponsoring colour revolutions in post-Soviet states
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: sputniknews.com (archived)*
  • Date of publication: July 02, 2019
  • Outlet language(s): English
  • Reported in: Issue 157
  • Countries / regions discussed: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Tajikistan, Belarus, Russia
Tags:
Anti-Russian Encircling Russia EU/NATO enlargement Puppets Conspiracy theory NATO Russophobia

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.

RESPONSE

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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