This Week’s Trend: Europeans deny Russians the right to be different and to have different values.
This is not about denying Russian people, but about criticism of concrete actions of Russian governement, e.g. annexation of Ukrainian territory, pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign, and military intervention in Syria.
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.
