In April 2022, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center began monitoring the spread of fakes about NATO in the occupation media of the peninsula, and in June of the same year, we started the column NATO in the media of the occupied Crimea, where experts already refute this information.
We remind you that the Russian Federation 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 began to openly call NATO an enemy and accuse it of threats and unfriendly actions. Since that moment, the Russian Federation has been actively disseminating Putin’s propaganda that NATO enters Russian borders, the continued existence and expansion of NATO poses a threat to Russia, NATO wants to draw Ukraine into its ranks etc.
We want to share with you the main trends in the spread of fake information on the peninsula about the values, goals and current activities of the Alliance for 2023.
What changes were visible in the rhetoric of the occupiers during this time?
You can find out about this by reading our infographics.
This project is being implemented with the support of the NATO Information and Documentation Centre