Disinfo: Victoria Nuland is one of the organisers of Euromaidan in 2014

Summary

Former US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was denied a Russian visa, because she is one of the organisers of the Euromaidan in 2014.

Disproof

The claim that Ms. Nuland is one of the organisers of Euromaidan in 2014 in Ukraine is a part of a recurring pro-Kremlin narrative that claims that protests were organised by foreign forces.

The Euromaidan protests were a spontaneous reaction among large parts of the Ukrainian population, ignited by the decision of former President Yanukovych not to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013. More similar cases here.

Background

Former US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was indeed denied a Russian visa. Sources in the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that Nuland is on the "black list", drawn up in response to US sanctions against Russian citizens. Nuland applied for a Russian visa to take part in a closed international conference in Moscow from May 20 to 21.

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Reported in: Issue 153
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 24/05/2019
Language/target audience: Russian
Country: Russia, Ukraine, US
Keywords: Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, Euromaidan
Outlet: 60 Minut @ Rossiya 1

Incident in the Kerch Strait was a Ukrainian provocation

Petro Poroshenko deliberately provoked incident in the Kerch Strait in order to impose martial law and to cancel the presidential election. Experts say that there is every reason to prosecute Poroshenko, but doubt that the case will be brought to an end.

May 29, 2019

Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation on Ukraine and Azov Sea that Ukrainian Navy deliberately violated Russian territorial waters during the Kerch strait incident, or that Petro Poroshenko instigated the provocation in Kerch Strait to extend his power.

On November 25, border patrol boats belonging to Russia’s FSB security service seized two small Ukrainian armoured artillery vessels and their crews after shooting at them, wounding several Ukrainian servicemen. Russia argued that they were in Russian waters. However, a bilateral treaty between Russia and Ukraine, signed in 2003 and ratified by Russia in 2004 governs the use of the Kerch strait and the Sea of Azov. The agreement states the stretch to be the “internal waters” of both Russia and Ukraine.

Global neo-colonialists stage colour revolutions and conquer indigenous national elites

National governments around the world risk becoming subservient to global elites. The latter pursue egoistic interests with the aim to expand their resource base and to increase their power. Together with economic globalisation, corporations have increased their information expansion in the cultural space. Some call it a global civil war between the globalising elites and ‘indigenous people’s masses’.

[…] here we talk about a secondary colonisation of those nations where the governments do not have sufficient technologies and resources to withstand the pressure from the globalists. The decision power of the national elites of subordinated countries is removed. The tools of neo-colonialists include:

– Imposing ideological narratives beneficial to colonisers and incomprehensible to national elites (e.g., liberalism, social-democracy, market, civil society, sustainable development, etc.);

– Controlling the information channels, influencing the indigenous peoples;

– Legitimating political regimes of the conquered countries through so called colour revolutions;

– Control over human resource policies of indigenous elites.

May 28, 2019

Disproof

This message is in line with the concept of big conspiracy and is consistent with the Shadow Government narrative. It is also aimed at discrediting a number of democratic and liberal concepts such as civil society and market economy, and to question the legitimacy of Ukrainian state institutions. Above all, this message is in line with the narrative of lost sovereignty, in this case as a result of alleged purposeful actions by global elites.

International think-tanks including the Chatham House elaborate plans to disrupt Belarus-Russia relations

One probable future scenario envisages the Eastern European region in the 21st century as the main bone of contention between the key global actors. Given this, the allied relations between Belarus and Russia can become an important factor for stabilisation in Eastern Europe. For this reason, a number of international think-tanks, which have no interest in a stable Eastern Europe, elaborate plans to disrupt integration between the two countries. These plans envisage the following:

The change of domestic and foreign policies of Belarus, its turn in foreign policy towards the West;
Inadequate response by Russia which will start counteracting Western influence along the Ukrainian scenario by forceful means;
Formation of a broad anti-Russian coalition of Eastern European countries, followed by the displacement of the Russian presence in Eastern Europe;
Increasing chaos and conflicting relations stemming from the confrontation with Russia;
Using the chaos in Eastern Europe as a tool to disrupt trade relations between China and Western Europe or taking them under US control.

One example is the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). In November 2018, it published a report about three Eastern European countries (Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine) where Belarus-Russia relations were given significant attention.

May 28, 2019

Disproof

This is a conspiracy consistent with repetitive pro-Kremlin narratives about the West's attempts to disrupt Belarusian-Russian relations, to destabilise Belarus through a colour revolution or otherwise, and the West's far-fetching anti-Russian activities.

The mentioned Chatham House report analyses ways to increase societal resilience in Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova in response to threats emanating from Russia, which deploys a set of tools aimed at weakening their sovereignty.