DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
- Outlet: alkhabrpress.com ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , alaan.org ( archive, original ) , nafeza2world.com ( archive, original ) , akhbarak.net ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , kachaf.com ( archive, original ) , ontime-news.net ( archive, original ) , alshbaka.net ( archive, original ) , el-3rb.com ( archive, original ) , asrar7.com ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , www.arabtimenews.com ( archive, original ) , raialyoum.com ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , nabd.com ( archive, original ) , marayainternational.com ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , arabnews24.ca ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , kurdstreet.com ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , kol-masr.com ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , arabic.rt.com ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , newsformy.com ( archive, original )
- Date of publication: May 30, 2021
- Article language(s): Arabic
- Countries / regions discussed: Ukraine, Russia
AI translations:
DISINFO: Ukraine is being racist against Russian culture
SUMMARY
Russia will try, as much as it can, to persuade the American side to pressure Ukraine to give up the illusions of power, arrogance, and racism against its citizens who belong to the Russian culture, especially since a large part of them (400 thousand Ukrainian citizens according to the latest estimates) now hold Russian citizenship. President Putin will also try to communicate to the American partners what advanced stages of integration of Crimea with the motherland Russia have exceeded after its return, based on a legitimate referendum, in accordance with all international laws and legislation.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Crimea, and undermining Ukrainian statehood, while claiming the country is a Russophobic state.
There is no ethnocide of Russians in Ukraine. The Russian culture - language and literature - was not touched in Ukraine. Kyiv adopted a Law on ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language, without discriminating against any languages.
This narrative also hides the fact of the 'weaponization' of Russian passports. The strategic use of granting of Russian citizenship which has been an instrument of Russian foreign policy since the late 1990s across the disputed territories which percolate the former Soviet republics - in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, formally and according to international law, still Georgian; in Moldova's Transnistria too, in eastern Ukraine and in occupied Crimea which did not “return” but was illegally annexed by Moscow based on an illegitimate referendum, which the UN described as not valid and confirmed its non-recognition of the illegal annexation of Crimea.
See similar disinformation cases in our database alleging that Ukraine became "anti-Russia"; or that Kyiv authorities want to forbid people in eastern Ukraine to speak Russian; or that Russia has nothing to do with the conflict in eastern Ukraine; or that Crimea "sailed" to Russia forever; or that Ukraine gave a “clear signal” that the country is exclusively for Ukrainians.
This case contained another narrative claiming that Trump was denied his right to speak and that Russia is on a well-known course of supporting the UN.