Elections in Belarus were anything but free, with no opposition candidates or independent observers, and a government disinformation campaign designed to instill fear. The opposition managed, nonetheless, to get its message to at least part of the electorate, and in spite governmental efforts, turnout was lower than expected.
The Ukrainians and the West are making the same mistakes on the front as Hitler did and, just like him, will lose the war, writes the pro-Kremlin propaganda, resuming several false narratives promoted in the past.
Bulgaria’s pro-Russian far-right has been increasingly vocal and provocative, as it tries to take advantage of tensions within the pro-European, pro-Ukraine ruling coalition.
Russia is upping the stakes in its long game against NATO, as it put Estonia’s prime minister on a wanted list and unveiled plans to increase the number of troops deployed at the border. Experts think that, within 3 to 10 years after the end of the war in Ukraine, Moscow would be able to attack a NATO country.
Two years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many Poles fear their country may be next on Putin’s bucket list.
Russian propaganda is constantly adapting its narratives in the context of the war in Ukraine, and as overt propaganda loses its effectiveness, it increasingly turns to disinformation and truncating part of the truth.
The Euromaidan protest in Ukraine was a coup staged by fascists and Russophobes, in the wake of which Ukraine risks disappearing as a state.
The head of European diplomacy has stated that Russia will defeat Ukraine in three months, writes the Russian state press, taking out of context and "enriching" a statement by Josep Borrell.
The USA will sustain a strategic defeat in Ukraine, pro-Kremlin propaganda claims, despite the fact that the United States are not involved in the war
Putin has so far avoided a confrontation with the women who demand the return of servicemen from the front in Ukraine. History shows that Russian women are capable of causing trouble for authoritarian regimes.
Ukraine launched missile strikes on Moldova, Russian propaganda claims, turning Ukraine’s use of anti-air defenses into an act of war against Moldova. The article also ignores the fact that Russia was the one that violated Moldova’s sovereignty and its airspace.
Russia has not won the war so far because, unlike Israel, which is killing civilians in Gaza, is only bombing military targets in Ukraine, pro-Kremlin propaganda claims.
Vladimir Putin recycled a number of Russian propaganda narratives to justify the invasion of Ukraine and portray Russia as a victim of Western aggression. The false narratives were also doubled by blatant lies, such as the one that Russia did not threaten to use its nuclear weapons, or the promotion of revisionist theses, according to which Romania, Poland, Hungary (and Russia) have the right to take back territories from Ukraine.
Russia is protecting the inhabitants of Novorossiya, a Russian historical territory occupied by Ukraine, against neo-Nazism, according to propaganda theses that are again reiterated into public space while Putin is preparing for his reelection.
Warnings about a possible Russian attack against NATO have increased lately. Is the threat imminent, or is it just being used to increase readiness?
The International Court of Justice says that Ukraine started the war in Donbas and Russia is not the aggressor state, according to Russian propaganda, which interprets a decision of the Court in the Hague.
NATO has biological laboratories in several ex-Soviet states, and its laboratories in Ukraine produced ticks and pathogens used to attack Russia, pro-Kremlin propaganda writes.
“All that was and is the property of the Romanian nation must be returned within the borders of the same state”, said Claudiu Târziu, the chairman of AUR’s National Council. To Russian propaganda, Târziu’s statement is solid gold.
In the Baltic countries, parties traditionally defending the interests of the Russian-speaking minority are suffering losses as the war has alienated some of their voters.
The leader of a far-right party in Hungary has laid claim to Transcarpathia, shortly after the AUR party in Romania lodged a similar claim to Northern Bukovina. The thesis is typical of Russian propaganda.
The Russian State Duma is planning to seize the assets of people distributing “war-related fake news”. The new law is in fact meant to silence anyone criticizing Putin’s regime.
Ukraine has given up Crimea and Donbas because it deprived Ukrainians in this area of their citizenship, according to a false narrative promoted by Russian propaganda.
The existence of Ukraine on the "historical territories of Russia" will be a permanent reason for war and killing of Ukrainians, says former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. He is one of the most virulent voices of Russian propaganda and has threatened nuclear war in the past.
Russia is succeeding in defeating the NATO-led Western coalition in the war in Ukraine, according to pro-Kremlin propaganda. In reality, NATO is not a party to the armed conflict.
In 2023, Moscow used fake narratives to justify its aggression in Ukraine. In addition, NATO, the EU and the United States continued to be Russian propaganda targets.
Joe Biden will launch a nuclear war against Russia to conceal the evidence of Ukraine’s defeat in the war, according to a Russian propaganda narrative citing pro-Kremlin experts in the USA.
The narratives were launched / amplified by Moscow and pro-Russians, and the theses included Moldova’s involvement in the war in Ukraine, an attack on Transnistria and EU rapprochement.
The colonization of Romania, the war in Ukraine, conspiracy theories related to the "sanitary dictatorship" and climate change have been the favorite topics for most of the year’s false narratives.
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The US will no longer support Ukraine and urges President Volodymyr Zelensky to end the war as soon as possible, according to pro-Kremlin media.
The European Council's decision to start accession negotiations with Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova and to grant candidate status to Georgia indicates Brussels' desire to play a more active role in foreign policy. There are several reasons for this.
The Ukrainian Black Sea coast and Odesa are historically Russia’s, according to a propaganda thesis recently reiterated by Vladimir Putin.
US biolabs in Ukraine were conducting various experiments on people, and Russia had to use military force to stop these experiments, pro-Kremlin propaganda writes.