Changing narratives in the rhetoric of self-proclaimed Belarusian President O. Lukashenko regarding russia’s war in Ukraine. Until 2022, O. Lukashenko denied the conflict between the countries: “If we come to you from the north, we will come on combine harvesters, tractors, trolleybuses and buses: we will never come to you on tanks. russians will never…
russia’s “special military operation” has expectedly caused a surge of anti-russian sentiments, which affects not only holders of russian passports, but also former citizens of the russian federation living in the EU. Over the past month, russophobia in the world has reached such intensity that it has pushed all other sentiments into the background. In…
Great Britain already has the experience of consolidating European countries. In particular, in the 1960s, it promoted the European Free Trade Association as an alternative to the EU. In EFTA, Britain was united with Austria, Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. However in 1973 the country made a choice in favor of the EU. After…
Since the beginning of the war, about half a million Ukrainian refugees have crossed the border of Moldova, and 100,000 have remained in the country. The current pro-European leadership of the Republic of Moldova condemned russia’s war against Ukraine, but refused to join the anti-russian sanctions. The Moldovan President, Maya Sandu, believes that joining the…
The percentage of the indigenous peoples of russia among dead interventionists significantly exceeds the percentage of these peoples in the population structure of the russian federation. Russia has officially recognized the death in the war of at least 580 natives of the Volga region, 150 soldiers from Buryatia, the Transbaikal region and Irkutsk region, and…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared a “military state of emergency” on May 24. “We don’t waste a single minute, as there is a war going on nearby. A war with no end in sight, which is a constant threat to Hungary, endangers our physical security, as well as threatens the energy supply and financial…
Why the vector of russian propagandists is changing Despite the power of russian propaganda, it is inflexible and unable to dramatically change direction. Radical replacement of the “kremlin methodology”, and the vector of work, is extremely rare. However, it seems that this week there was just such a change. The indicator of its beginning was…
The kremlin’s systematic attempts to cram into the world information space topics about allegedly American military biological laboratories in Ukraine. russia is maintaining not only military aggression but also waging a war on the information front. Back in April 2020, pro-russian media launched an information campaign against the so-called American biolaboratories in Ukraine. At the…
The war, started by moscow, led the Ukrainian state budget to lose a large number of traditional income in the form of taxes, excise duties and customs payments. According to an estimation given by the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, direct infrastructure losses of the country due to the war reach no less than $120…
russian propaganda messages on whether Ukrainians will really face famine in the winter of 2022-2023. Nowadays, the russian media are actively spreading messages about the massive export of food from Ukraine and ironically talking about rising fuel prices, which, in their opinion, will inevitably lead to higher prices and food shortages. In fact, Ukraine produces…
On May 16, the kremlin’s propaganda media spread disinformation that, allegedly part of the Azov Regiment fighters surrendered to russian military. Ukraine debunked fake news immediately. However, such a “misstatement” is not the first on the russia’s information agenda against the Azov Battalion. In general, the russia’s campaign to “demonize” Ukrainian volunteer battalions is systematic…
How will the russian oil embargo have an impact on the economy of all countries as a whole? The importance of the oil embargo in the sixth package of EU sanctions consists of the sanctions relating to truly basic indicators of the russian economy. Recently, world oil prices reached a 14-year high. Through excessive exporters’…
