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In August 2020, Belarusians took to the streets to protest the results of a rigged presidential election. The protests soon became the largest in the country’s history and were eventually violently supressed, with tens of thousands arrested, beaten and prosecuted. Extensive disinformation campaigns continue to enable and accompany the brutality of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime against its own citizens, independent media and civil society.

The Belarusian state-controlled media have been complicit in the brutal crackdown on dissent in the country. Forced, televised “confessions” from political prisoners is just one of many examples, illustrating that state-controlled media have become an extension of a repressive state apparatus in Belarus. We also observed how the Belarusian state-controlled media aided Belarusian officials in weaponising migration into the EU.

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Furthermore, the Lukashenka regime and its media apparatus have been instrumental in supporting Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Belarusian authorities have repressed social media as well – for example by declaring many popular independent Telegram channels as “extremist material”.

At the same time, pro-Kremlin outlets continue to support and facilitate disinformation campaigns in and around Belarus, falsely accusing the West of engineering a “colour revolution”, claiming that the democratic Belarusian opposition is a “puppet of the West”, and labelling pro-democracy supporters as “zmagars”, extremists, terrorists and Nazi disciples.

The East Stratcom Task Force has been closely observing the media and disinformation landscape in Belarus. Below is our collection of articles on disinformation and information manipulation targeting democratic Belarus, exercised both by Lukashenka’s and Putin’s ecosystems of information manipulation.

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Lukashenka’s ongoing retaliation against Belarusians

Five years after the 2020 mass protests, Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s war on Belarusian society shows no sign of ending. Driven by fear of those who defied him, he has turned Belarus into a semi-totalitarian state marked by mass arrests, political prisoner trading, blacklists of “enemies of the state”, and total media control.

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Belarus: Prisoners on screen

Repentance videos on Belarusian state TV targeted US-affiliated journalists to pressure the new US administration. Other denunciation videos focus on bad life in the EU.

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The Kursk problem

The Ukrainian advance into the Kursk region leaves the Kremlin struggling for ways to handle its PR catastrophe with several confusing messages.

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17 000 – the tip of the iceberg

The EUvsDisinfo Database has logged more than 17 000 examples of pro-Kremlin disinformation since 2015. We take a closer look to see how the disinformation has degenerated and radicalised over the years.

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Cases in the EUvsDisinfo database focus on messages in the international information space that are identified as providing a partial, distorted, or false depiction of reality and spread key pro-Kremlin messages. This does not necessarily imply, however, that a given outlet is linked to the Kremlin or editorially pro-Kremlin, or that it has intentionally sought to disinform. EUvsDisinfo publications do not represent an official EU position, as the information and opinions expressed are based on media reporting and analysis of the East Stratcom Task Force.

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