When objective reality refuses to bend to the Kremlin’s will, Kremlin propagandists attempt to substitute it with their illusions. In last week’s iteration of Disinfo Review, we covered the Kremlin information manipulation ecosystem’s habit of staying mum about topics that they do not have clear instructions on, or that they wish to stay away from the limelight. This week, though, it seems that the Kremlin disinformation peddlers have received a clearer set of instructions to follow. like true gamblers, Kremlin minions are hedging their bets. […]
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine made Kazakhstan realise its own identity… In an interview with EUvsDiSiNFO, Vyacheslav Abramov says « if you speak only Russian, you will be a target for disinformation and propaganda. If you speak Kazakh and Russian, you will start questioning some messages you see in Russian. If you also speak English, you will start questioning more and more, so you will be able to think more critically about the information that you are getting. Unfortunately, many Kazakh media outlets were influenced by Russian media before the war. For many of them Russian media were the main source of information and Russian content was just translated into Kazakh.» […]
If there is one lesson that the Kremlin’s leaders have learned from what happened after February 24, 2022, it is that without the West and without Ukraine, Russia sinks into insignificance. Once again, we find ourselves faced with American ignorance of Russian diplomatic procedures. Of course, there is the familiar refrain: don’t humiliate Russia. Can you imagine that in April 1945, the Allies’ main concern was to “allow Hitler to save face”, “not to humiliate Germany” ? According to historian Françoise Thom, Russia has not renounced its original plan to install a pro-Russian government in Kyiv. As our eyes are riveted on the battlefield in Ukraine, we tend to forget that Russia continues to wage a parallel war against the West, this one largely invisible, just as in 1941-1945 Stalin was not fighting the Wehrmacht only… […]
En août 1813, Napoléon déclenche une offensive générale pour prendre Berlin. A Jüterbog, 70 km au sud, les troupes prussiennes et russes des généraux von Tauentzien et von Bülow (Prusse) et suédoises commandées par Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte opèrent leur jonction et stoppent la progression vers Berlin des armées françaises de Ney et d’Oudinot. L’armée du Nord va leur imposer une défaite sans appel. 10.000 morts et blessés côté prussien, 22.000 côté français, morts, blessés ou prisonniers de guerre. La ville de Jüterbog et la région du Brandenbourg ont restauré les monuments en l’honneur des soldats français morts en 1813 et en 1871, enterrés au « cimetière des Français ». Comme l’a si bien dit Jean d’Ormesson : « Il y a quelque chose de plus fort que la mort, c’est la présence des absents, dans la mémoire des vivants » […]
According to the Kremlin’s disinformation mouth-pieces, the big show in town this week, quite literally, was the visit of North Korean Supreme Leader (read: dictator) Kim Jong-Un to Russia. It was a welcome distraction from the 3-day-‘special military operation’ – turned-into-endless-existential-war for most pro-Kremlin outlets. As such, it enjoyed broad and detailed, if heavily disinformation-laden, coverage. Kremlin disinformation pundits balance between praising the relationship with the DPRK and appearing to be too needy of North Korean help, as Kim Jong-Un’s visit provided a welcome distraction from the Ukrainian counteroffensive and economic troubles in Russia. […]
In 2021 the Lukashenko regime introduced a new state holiday, “the Day of People’s Unity”, to be celebrated on the 17th of September. With all its propaganda, it has tried to gloss over the fact that the 17th of September is first and foremost remembered as the anniversary of the Soviet attack and invasion of Poland in 1939, which was planned in coordination with Nazi Germany following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, signed in August 1939. The Belarusian people – school children in particular – are constantly fed pro-USSR narratives and anti-western propaganda, with Poland portrayed as a real demon to bolster the “Day of People’s Unity”. Back to the USSR […]
« La guerre d’attrition menée par Moscou est un Katyń au ralenti, poursuivant le même but que l’exécution des officiers polonais au printemps 1940 : détruire les cadres de la Pologne (aujourd’hui de l’Ukraine) indépendante ». La Russie n’a nullement renoncé à son projet initial d’installer un gouverne-ment pro-russe à Kyïv. Et, pour parvenir à ce résultat, elle mène un travail de sape auprès des Ukrainiens eux-mêmes, mais aussi en infiltrant les cercles de décision occidentaux, à Washington et dans les capitales européennes. Empêcher le soutien occiden-tal à une victoire finale de l’Ukraine et décourager les Ukrainiens de se battre jusqu’à la victoire, tels sont les objectifs russes qu’analyse et dénonce Françoise Thom. […]
In recent weeks EUvsDiSiNFO has picked up a new wave of attacks against European officials and institutions. This time, not all of it is coming from Russia, the Belarusian regime is in on it as well. Such incidents also serve as a timeless reminder of the fact that we cannot really trust our eyes only. When in slightest doubt, we should always check the source of our information. Impersonation is not new… It is a favoured technique among pro-Kremlin actors. Thanks to this new way of monitoring the threat landscape – focusing on manipulative behaviour in addition to disinformation narratives – we can now detect and expose this type of manipulative behaviour that the Kremlin and their allies are using to target Europeans on a regular basis. […]
With both Yandex and Google aiding [the Kremlin] in pursuing its hostile information policy, the majority of Russians see the world very different from what it is in reality. Lev Gershenzon, former Head of Yandex.News (2007–2012), is currently working at The True Story, a new censorship-free news aggregator. The True Story was launched on 22 August 2023 and blocked in Russia just three days later. Following the publication of his research paper by the German Council on Foreign Relations, he spoke to EUvs-DiSiNFO. […]
When objective reality refuses to bend to the Kremlin’s will, Kremlin propagandists attempt to substitute it with their illusions. In last week’s iteration of Disinfo Review, we covered the Kremlin information manipulation ecosystem’s habit of staying mum about topics that they do not have clear instructions on, or that they wish to stay away from the limelight. This week, though, it seems that the Kremlin disinformation peddlers have received a clearer set of instructions to follow. like true gamblers, Kremlin minions are hedging their bets. […]
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