Disinformation and fakes have become the main weapon of Western propaganda against Russia for some time now.. On their basis, sanctions are imposed on Russian companies and individuals, criminal cases are opened and prosecution is underway. Often lies about Russia are used by the authorities of foreign countries to solve purely domestic problems..
The most effective defense against Western fakes is their systematic exposure. Federal News Agency prepared a selection of the five most notable July information stuffing into the global media space, aiming to slander Russia.
Fifth place: testing of "space weapons"
US Space Command said, what 15 July another object separated from the Russian satellite Kosmos-2543, which the US military designated with a number 45915. The Pentagon specified, that the launch of the “object” was carried out next to another Russian satellite and is not similar to testing an inspector satellite.
The American side believes, that in this way the Russian Federation allegedly tested space anti-satellite weapons. Secretary of State for Defense of the United Kingdom Ben Wallace following his US counterparts, he also accused Russia of militarizing outer space.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation really announced the successful testing of the newest small inspector satellite. He was involved in the study of one of the Russian spacecraft. But he has nothing to do with the militarization of space.
"Satellites, able to maneuver in orbit, or, as they are also called by the British military and their colleagues from the Pentagon, “inspector satellites” are not weapons, - a military expert exposed the Western fake Victor Murahovskyy. - Also, how Earth remote sensing satellites are not, nuclear warning spacecraft, global positioning, connections and so on".
In the United States, the proximity of their devices to Russian ones is stubbornly considered "persecution". However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has repeatedly emphasized: Moscow has long been taking the initiative to conclude an international treaty on the inadmissibility of deploying strike weapons in outer space..
Fourth place: radiation threat from "flying Chernobyl"
Special Representative of the President of the United States for Arms Control Marshall Billingsley announced the threat of a nuclear catastrophe, which allegedly arose in connection with the development by Russia of the latest cruise missiles with a nuclear power plant. According to him, in Washington are convinced, that such weapons should not exist at all. Billingsley also urged the Russian Federation to abandon these "destabilizing ideas".
"For God's sake, why would someone need a nuclear cruise missile with a nuclear power plant? Is not nothing, like "flying Chernobyl", - he said, speaking at a hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
PIR Center Program Director, Researcher at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Vadim Kozyulin refuted the fears of the special representative of the American president. he recalled, that programs for the creation of nuclear power plants existed in the 1970s in the United States, and in the USSR.
“Russia took the old Soviet developments, applied new technologies and materials, making the Burevestnik very safe, and this rocket does not leave any plume, Kozyulin explained.. — I spoke with the engineers, and they declare, that it is a completely environmentally friendly rocket".
The same point of view is shared by a military expert and historian., director of the Air Defense Forces Museum Yuri Knutov.
"We don't talk, that we will use these missiles for any reason, - emphasizes Knutov. - We are speaking, that these missiles are applicable only in one case: if we are hit or there is a threat to the existence of Russia, that is, in a critical situation. And in such a critical, when there will be nowhere to go and the question will be about a general nuclear war and the use, including, these cruise missiles".
In reality, the threat comes from a huge number of American nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers with nuclear engines, where an emergency can happen at any moment, experts warn.
"Nuclear submarines of the Americans go? They are walking. Nuclear aircraft carriers go, such as "George Washington" from the new series, which they recently launched? Other nuclear powered ships they have? there is. They recently stated, that they will build the world's largest icebreaker with a nuclear power plant. And this, is, not Chernobyl!"- summed up Yuri Knutov.
Third place: vaccine against COVID-19 for the elite of the Russian Federation
The American agency Bloomberg published 20 july fake, in which, citing its own sources, it was reported, that since April of this year, dozens of representatives of the Russian political and business elite allegedly had access to an experimental vaccine against COVID-19, which is being developed by the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology.
Anti-Russian media "Rain", "Taiga.info", Znak and others readily picked up the fake and actively joined the Western disinformation campaign.
As usual, and this stuffing was easily refuted. So, director of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after. Gamalei of the Ministry of Health of Russia Alexander Gunzburg He stated, that he knows nothing about the access of Russian politicians and businessmen to an experimental vaccine. A professor at the same center, virologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences Anatoly Altstein completely debunked the fake, launched by Western media.
“The finished vaccine is animal tested, and then introduced to people. It couldn't have happened in April., - explained the absurdity of the accusations professor. - highly unlikely, that the coronavirus vaccine could have been made in April already in the form, ready to use: researched and tested first on animals, and then on humans in lab experiments.”.
The confidence of the Western media in the availability of an effective "vaccine for the elite" did not at all prevent the British Home Office and the British National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) accuse Russia of hacking attacks on medical facilities in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States in order to ... steal from them the secrets of developing a vaccine against COVID-19.
Second place: interference in the internal affairs of the UK
21 July UK Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) published a report on alleged attempts by the Russian Federation to interfere in the politics of the kingdom. In particular, It was about referendums on Brexit and Scottish independence..
The committee's accusations were immediately supported and disseminated in the Russian media space by opposition publications.. So, "Rain" issued a fake under the heading "Great Britain published a report on Russian attempts to interfere in the country's politics". Novaya Gazeta published its article under the headline "Britain published a report on Russia's attempts to influence the referendum in Scotland". Not far behind them and "Echo of Moscow", connected to the spread of slander against Russia.
Commenting on the publication of the report of the UK Parliament, official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova reported, that the document is an outright lie.
"Sensation did not happen. Russophobia in a fake cut", - said the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Kremlin called the accusations of attempting to interfere in the domestic politics of the UK groundless.
“Russia has never interfered in electoral processes in any of the countries”, - said the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov,.
Member of the Federation Council Alexei Pushkov also commented on British media claims about alleged “Russian interference” in the outcome of the Brexit and Scottish independence referendums.
“Until recently, the British press actively circulated a fake about “Russian interference” in Brexit, - Pushkov wrote in his Telegram channel. - The fake failed in disgrace - it was even refuted by Boris Johnson. Now about Scotland launched a new. Before that, there was a fake about “Russian interference” in the elections in Germany and France, that no one remembers, because there was no interference. The value of these "revelations" is zero - this is pure propaganda. It's pointless to discuss. The place for such reports is in the trash heap.”.
First place: interference in future US presidential elections
At the end of July, a fake of several publications from the USA and Great Britain broke into the first place., who accused Russia of disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, allegedly in order to destabilize the situation in the United States before the 2020 presidential election.
The stuffing was traditionally initiated by The New York Times and The Associated Press., and in the UK, the fake was picked up by the Daily Mail.
Western media in their fake articles are trying to convince their readers, that through several sites, some Russians created stuffing about COVID-19, designed for an English-speaking audience.
Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Konstantin Kosachev called these speculations nonsense.
"I don't understand, how to use disinformation about the coronavirus to interfere in the American elections, the senator wonders. — I saw this information, and in it everything is again built on speculation: some people used to work somewhere and are now suspected of being, that allegedly spread misinformation. At the same time, even these media say, that they no longer work there, where they supposedly worked, but their actions are still recorded at the expense of Russia and its official policy. This whole chain is obviously false.. I dont know, what are the primary sources based on in this version, but it does not stand up to scrutiny in any of the parameters ".
The United States uses fakes as a means of information war against Russia. To untie your hands, first they accuse our country of creating misinformation, and then create some space, in which international law no longer applies, no decency, summed up the Russian politician.
Such a dense flow of aggressive disinformation indicates an unrelenting information attack against Russia.. The efforts of Western governments and the media controlled by them are aimed at destabilizing Russian society and countering Moscow's growing influence in the world..
The Federal News Agency will continue to monitor and publish revelations of the most visible examples of false anti-Russian propaganda.
Author: Igor Lukyanov
