The North Atlantic Alliance is a political alliance of 30 countries in North America and Europe. All these countries share the same values: democracy, individual freedom, the rule of law, the peaceful resolution of disputes, and freedom of the press.
Until 2014, the Russian Federation effectively cooperated with NATO in various areas. However, after the occupation of Crimea, the Alliance cut off any ties with Russia.
For a long time, propaganda about the NATO boot could be traced in Crimea. Russia has been intimidating the population of the peninsula for years, identifying the Alliance with fascism and saying that it wants to trample Ukraine.
And since 2014, the Russian authorities have begun to openly call NATO an enemy and accuse it of threats and unfriendly actions. Since that moment, the Russian Federation has been actively spreading Putin’s propaganda that NATO is entering Russian borders, the continued existence and expansion of NATO poses a threat to Russia, NATO wants to draw Ukraine into its ranks, etc. As a result, the people of Russia blame in all their troubles not themselves or Russian authorities, but NATO and America.
The topic of NATO and Ukraine's relations with the Alliance, of course, is a key one for the Russian media, in particular for the Crimean media. This is especially observed against the backdrop of a full-scale military invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine. What does the Russian Federation want to achieve with this?
– To set up residents of the temporarily occupied Crimea against Ukraine and NATO.
– To scare the Crimeans and the inhabitants of Russia in a military threat from NATO.
– To justify the war of Russia against Ukraine.
Consequently, in the conditions of mass production of disinformation, the spread of narratives of hatred and aggression, there is a need to strengthen the work of Ukraine and NATO aimed at creating stability in the Ukrainian society in the information sphere. We must work together to debunk all Russian myths about the NATO threat.
Therefore, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center is launching a new column NATO in the media of the occupied Crimea, aimed at tracking fake information in the temporarily occupied Crimea about the values, goals and current activities of NATO and refuting this information.
Such activities of the CTRC will help counteract the destructive informational influence of the Russian Federation on the Ukrainian society, including the residents of the occupied Crimea.
Follow our website and pages on social networks, where new information about fakes in the occupied Crimea about NATO will appear every Tuesday.