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DISINFO: A colour revolution scenario was thwarted in Belarus

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Colour revolutions Protest Conspiracy theory Alexander Lukashenko West

DISINFO: A colour revolution scenario was thwarted in Belarus

SUMMARY

A colour revolution scenario was recently thwarted in Belarus.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Western attempts to organise a colour revolution in Belarus.

The pro-Kremlin media frequently falsely portray popular protests around the world colour revolutions instigated by the West.

The protests in Belarus erupted to contest the results of the presidential election on 9 August 2020, which were not monitored by independent experts, and are largely considered fraudulent by both international observers and a big part of the Belarusian society. On 19 August 2020, the European Council called Belarusian elections neither free nor fair.

This article featured another claim that New Nazis were the cornerstone for the power shift in Ukraine.

See earlier disinformation cases claiming that Belarus is a military range for the upcoming US's interference into Russian affairs; or that Poland and Lithuania are directly supervising the coup in Belarus; or that there was a Western plot to kill Lukashenka; or that the protests in Belarus are a colour revolution conducted according to Maidan scenario.

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