Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya visited Latvia to remind of herself and to try to add Latvia to the Polish-Lithuania coalition and to influence it on the issue of the Belarusian nuclear power plant. However Tsikhanouskaya is just an avatar, she is a visual representation of people who stand behind her. There is no point in talking to Tsikhanouskaya, one should talk to those behind her avatar. Furthermore, Latvia cannot propose anything either. It is not sovereign in foreign issues and does what elder brothers tell it to do. There is a change in the US and it is not clear where the Latvian command centre is. Hence Latvian politicians and politicians of the Baltic states in the wider sense temporarily have somewhat larger autonomy. Within the next months when political uncertainty in the US is over, the Baltic states’ politicians will be moving in the direction assigned by the US.
This publication contains recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about the Baltic states as non-sovereign and the Belarusian opposition including Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya as Western puppets.
Often presented as American vassals or puppet states, the Baltic States are independent states, which shape their own foreign and domestic policies. The US is an important ally to the EU but EU policy is not determined by the US, as explained by the EU High Representative.
The Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya spoke at the international security and political forum Riga Conference 2020 and met with Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edgars Rinkēvičs, during her visit to Riga. However, it was not reported that the issue of the Belarusian NPP was discussed, contrary to what the publication claims.
See other examples of these disinformation narratives in our database, such as claims that Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya is controlled by Lithuanian puppeteers, that the US is introducing extremists in the protests in Belarus, that Latvia lost its sovereignty to the EU, and that Lithuania is a hostage of the American interests in Eastern Europe.
Senior high-tech officials have strengthened their strict oversight processes before, during and after the US presidential election trying to control debate and public political discussion.
In recent days, Donald Trump himself, several of his supporters, and people who have their own view of events have all been censored by Facebook and Twitter.
Pro-Kremlin conspiracy theory about social media, advancing pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about “secret elites” and the West's alleged media censorship and societal control.
There is no evidence that social media outlets are censoring US President Donald Trump or his supporters. The day before the article was published, the top 10 performing Facebook posts included four posts from Donald Trump, three from conservative news outlets Fox News and Newsmax, one from evangelist missionary and Trump supporter Franklin Graham, and one tweet from the White House.
Russia may consider withdrawing from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), if the organisation continues its policy of bias against certain countries.
The accusations levelled against the Syrian authorities of using chemical weapons, Moscow and Damascus confirmed that there is no evidence of these accusations.
What happened with the former client, Sergey Skripal, and the activist, Alexei Navalny, also comes in the context of the bias of the organisation that did not base its statements on any facts or evidence.
The OPCW is an important organisation, although it is losing its credibility.
Recurring disinformation narratives attacking the independence and integrity of the OPCW and a disinformation narrative about the Salisbury and Navalny poisonings.
According to the OPCW's Director-General, the organisation has been targeted by a disinformation campaign when it granted new powers to assign blame for chemical attacks. 18 countries issued a joint statement, which called for an end to the unacceptable Russian defamation of the OPCW. Regarding the other allegations in the article:
British MI6’s ears stick out behind Turkey’s actions in Karabakh. Pan-Turkism was a British product. Richard Moore, a former British ambassador to Turkey and a close friend of Erdogan, is behind the Karabakh war.
Britain has always been on the side of the Ottomans and for the expulsion of Iran from the Caucasus. Today all opponents of Iran have gathered in Karabakh.
Conspiracy theory about the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
There is no evidence that any Western foreign special services had anything to do with the 2020 military escalation between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
