DISINFO: After Nagorno Karabakh, foreign powers may try to destabilise Georgia
SUMMARY
After the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, foreign forces may try to destabilise the situation in other countries in Transcaucasia, namely in Georgia, though this time not through military means but by attempts to exploit its internal problems. There will be attempts to organise all kind of revolutions. They succeeded in Erevan but failed in Minsk. As long as there are these kinds of forces succeeding in Erevan, Kyiv, Tblisi and other places, there won’t be calm in the Caucasus.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theory not backed by any evidence, promoting several recurrent pro-Kremlin narratives about popular protests as Western-led colour revolutions, foreign powers aiming to encircle Russia, and Moscow as the ultimate target of international events.
Contrary to the claim, popular protests in Armenia and Ukraine were not destabilisation attempts orchestrated from abroad, neither is the protest movement in Belarus. This disinformation article appeared amidst a series of demonstrations in Georgia against the results of the Parliamentarian election, won by the Georgian Dream Party considered friendlier to Russia than the other leading political formations but that the opposition claimed had been rigged. By framing these demonstrations as a foreign-backed colour revolution, this narrative aims to deprive those protests of any legitimacy.
See other examples of these disinformation narratives, such as claims that clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh are part of an Anaconda Ring plan against Russia, that events in Belarus are part of a hybrid war organised from abroad, that Moscow prevented a colour revolution in Kyrgyzstan, that extremists and Nazis are being trained in Ukraine to act in Belarus, or that Angela Merkel is the handler of Belarusian and Russian opposition leaders Tsikhanouskaya and Navalny.