In contrast to the USA, Russia has never positioned itself as the “world gendarme” and has never wished to resolve the fate of nations or entire continents.
In the last 70 years the Soviet Union and Russia have repeatedly involved themselves with the fate of sovereign nations: in Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), Afghanistan (1979-89), Georgia (2008), Ukraine (2014-).
Cases in the EUvsDisinfo database focus on messages in the international information space that are identified as providing a partial, distorted, or false depiction of reality and spread key pro-Kremlin messages. This does not necessarily imply, however, that a given outlet is linked to the Kremlin or editorially pro-Kremlin, or that it has intentionally sought to disinform. EUvsDisinfo publications do not represent an official EU position, as the information and opinions expressed are based on media reporting and analysis of the East Stratcom Task Force.
