DISINFO: The EU wants to turn Belarus into another anti-Russian outpost
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: Komitet spaseniya Ukrainy ( archived) *
  • Date of publication: August 14, 2020
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Countries / regions discussed: EU, Belarus, Ukraine

DISINFO: The EU wants to turn Belarus into another anti-Russian outpost

SUMMARY

The Europeans, these mourners of democracy, have standards for themselves (for example, look at how protests in France were recently dispersed), but for people like Lukashenka and Yanukovych, they have completely different standards. Just as these protectors of democracy did not think about Ukraine, now they do not think about Belarus. They need to turn Belarus into another anti-Russian outpost. You [Belarusians] are pushed to the Ukrainian scenario.

RESPONSE

Pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Western Russophobia, also alleging that the protests in Belarus that followed the last presidential elections are orchestrated by external actors. The EU does not plan to turn Belarus into an anti-Russian outpost. It did not recognize recent presidential election, as the election process did not meet the international standards expected of a participating state of the OSCE. The EU also condemned the violence against protesters who spontaneously took to the streets to protest fraudulent elections. See related disinformation cases: the protests in Belarus are a color revolution; the West wants to prepare Maidan in Belarus.

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