“Vaccination is deadly!” “Vaccination is useless!” Kremlin disinformation outlets continue to spread lies on the battle against the COVID-19, disregarding the cost of human lives.
The Kremlin campaign against Western vaccines has backfired, impeding Russia’s own drive for vaccination. Years of spreading conspiracy theories on national TV networks and doctored statistics on the pandemic have encouraged vaccine hesitancy in Russia.
This article looks at the evolving information environment around the COVID-19 and vaccines roll-out in the Eastern Partnership countries and Russia during the month of February and into the first week of March 2021.
The Year of the Bull has started, and EUvsDisinfo offers a prognosis of what bull we might expect from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
While pro-Kremlin media highlighted adverse outcomes of Western vaccines, they received support from the most improbable of people: a Russian diplomat.
Seen from Kremlin the Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V has developed into an ideological offensive with a ferocity a bit like a 'Cold War' on words.
While the world is fighting back on the pandemic and launching one of the largest campaigns for vaccination, Russian media engage in campaigning against the Pfizer vaccine.
Pro-Kremlin media are drumming up support for the Sputnik V vaccine by creating the perception that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has initiated negotiations with the developer of the Russian vaccine, the Gamaleya Centre.
Promoting Sputnik V vaccine to Latin American audiences pro-Kremlin media follow a disciplined approach: heavy coverage of the growing global COVID-19 infection rates is followed with constant messaging about the successes of the Sputnik V vaccine and failures of other vaccine producers.
In line with the previous EEAS Special Reports and based on publicly available information, this edition gives an overview of recent developments around COVID-19 related disinformation.
US presidential election dominated again world news this week, and the Kremlin and its media continue supporting claims on election fraud and Joe Biden's policy towards Russia.
The US indictment of “Sandworm”, Monkey Vaccine narratives and other repeating stories.
Russian state media have a credibility problem, and they know it - and they have found a crafty solution to it.
Despite evidence pointing to the contrary, pro-Kremlin media continues to claim Russia had nothing to do with downing flight MH17, poisoning the Skripals, or interfering in the US elections.
The pro-Kremlin media can never resist playing up the “colour revolution” theme.
EU sanctions on Syria have been a favourite target of disinformation from Russia and pro-Kremlin media to discredit the EU’s action in and policy towards Syria. This week we devote the Disinformation Review largely to disinformation on Syria, EU policies and the sanctions regime.
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Load 15 more articlesCases 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.
