DISINFO: The CIA and US-financed organisations planned an August 2020 uprising in Belarus
SUMMARY
Not long ago high US officials spoke about support to Belarus's sovereignty, meanwhile, the CIA and various foundations systematically planned an August uprising in Belarus. The US continues its dirty anti-Russian game where Belarus is just a pawn on a big chessboard.
RESPONSE
This is a pro-Kremlin narrative about the West's anti-Russian actions and Western attempts to organise a colour revolution in Belarus.
There is no evidence proving the claim that the CIA and US-funded organisations prepared the August 2020 'uprising'. The pro-Kremlin media frequently use disinformation narratives about popular protests allegedly incited and run by the West, including, what they refer to as “colour revolutions” in post-Soviet states, the “Arab Spring”, Euromaidan in Ukraine, protests in Catalonia and the latest protests in Russia.
The protests in Belarus erupted to contest the results of the presidential election on 9 August 2020, which were not monitored by independent experts, and are largely considered fraudulent by both international observers and a big part of the Belarusian society. On 19 August 2020, the European Council called Belarusian elections neither free nor fair.
See earlier disinformation cases claiming that Belarus is a military range for the upcoming US's interference into Russian affairs, that The West supports a bloody post-election Maidan scenario in Belarus, that the Belarusian opposition, civic activists and independent journalists make kill lists for Western security bodies, and that Poland and Lithuania are directly supervising the coup in Belarus.