Disinfo: There is no evidence of Russian involvement in the war in Donbas

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative depicting the 2013-14 protests in Kyiv as a coup d’état orchestrated by the West. There was no coup d’état in Ukraine. The onset of the Euromaidan protests was a spontaneous and endogenous reaction by numerous segments of the Ukrainian population to former President Yanukovych’s sudden withdrawal from the promised Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013. The protesters’ demands included constitutional reform, a stronger role for parliament, the formation of a government of national unity, an end to corruption, early presidential elections and an end to violence. Read a similar case claiming that the West organised the Maidan coup in order to transform Ukraine into an anti-Russian state

This is a conspiracy theory which presents many social and political events in various countries as a consequence of Western instigated provocations against Russia and China. and consistent with recurring pro-Kremlin narratives about the Nazi-like West, the US or West funding the Hong Kong’ protests, and the West's anti-Russian activities. Pro-Kremlin media have long used the narrative about anti-government protests being funded by the US. Examples include colour revolutions in post-Soviet states, the “Arab Spring” revolts, and Ukraine's Euromaidan in 2014. They also often use the accusation of Nazism as explained in our past analysis Nazi east, Nazi west, Nazi over the cuckoo's nest. The protests in Hong Kong started in June 2019 over a controversial extradition law, but have expanded to call for Hong Kong's leader to step down, an inquiry into alleged police brutality, for those who have been arrested to be released and greater democratic freedoms. When it comes to the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922, British, French and American units were sent to Russian ports to support White forces, but they rarely directly engaged the Bolsheviks, and the War had a number of more important domestic roots, foremost, widespread resistance to the new Bolshevik order. See earlier disinformation cases alleging that the US is like 4th Reich, that the Hong Kong protests are the West’s revenge on China for not waging war against Russia, that the goal of the US global “Anaconda” strategy is to limit the living space of geopolitical opponents, and that the West's objective is to encircle Russia entirely thanks to the "Anaconda ring" and "Great Turan" doctrines.