Last week, a disinformation review, highlighted the cynical opportunism of the pro-Kremlin media in exploiting the racial injustice protests sweeping across America and the world. The efforts by Russian state media and pro-Kremlin outlets to exploit the situation for political objectives, internationally and domestically, showed a distinct contrast in coverage for Western versus Russian-speaking audiences. This trend continued this week as well, with pro-Kremlin outlets spreading the usual conspiracy theories – modified for the topic of the day – as well as divisive messages related to the protests. Evidence that the pro-Kremlin media is actively instrumentalising the US crisis to push its preferred narratives and advance an anti-liberal, anti-Western agenda is growing rapidly.
Racial injustice protests: a ploy for colour revolution
Several cases this week attempt to link the protests with the alleged fomenting of the “colour revolution” and meddling in the affairs of other states. For example, we saw claims that the protests are “extremely reminiscent of the techniques of a colour revolution” and a “dress rehearsal” of the Orange Revolution – even alleging that the US prepared people in different parts of the world to organise them.
It is well known that the power of popular mobilisation is one of the Kremlin’s greatest political anxieties regarding regime stability, given the trend of civic revolutions against corruption-prone regimes in post-Soviet countries. As a result, the pro-Kremlin media have a habit of suggesting that demonstrations anywhere, of any sort, must be orchestrated by malevolent outside forces. The present unrest in the US is no exception, with suggested culprits including America’s “ruling elites”, globalist corporations, the Democratic Party – seeking to gain influence ahead of the upcoming presidential election – and of course George Soros, who is supposedly encouraging riots and pogroms by the black population and trying to prevent Trump’s re-election, in cahoots with the Democrats. Soros is a popular figure in the pro-Kremlin narrative thanks to his philanthropic work and promotion of democracy and free markets. By painting him as an instigator of the current US protests, the pro-Kremlin media also pushes the message in other countries that Soros’ Open Society Foundation should be banned.
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