The European Parliament is preparing a resolution on historical fraud in Russia
Kyiv • UNN
The European Parliament plans to vote on a resolution on disinformation and historical falsifications by Russia. The document exposes Russia's attempts to justify its aggression against Ukraine and influence EU policy.
In January, the European Parliament will vote on a resolution on disinformation and historical falsification by Russia. UNN reports this with reference to DW.
The resolution is titled "Disinformation and historical falsification by Russia to justify its aggressive war against Ukraine".
The European Parliament notes that the Russian Federation uses disinformation and distorted historical facts to pursue imperial policies and justify its aggressive war against Ukraine. The information manipulation campaigns are coordinated and funded by the Russian government and are one of the pillars of the Kremlin's state policy .
"The Russian authorities have been rewriting history textbooks (...), bringing the propaganda of the imperial war to schools and brainwashing children for many years. And this has obvious consequences. Russia imprisons its own historians and destroys organizations that seek the truth. For example, Yuri Dmitriev, thanks to whom the victims of Stalin's repressions in Karelia were found. We have seen it all before. We have seen it in action in the Soviet Union," said Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, at a debate on the falsification of history in Russia.
Kaja Kallas believes that the Kremlin's disinformation campaigns are a key element of a hybrid war whose frontline "runs through our own democracies, universities, parliaments, media and other institutions." In this way, Moscow is trying to influence domestic politics in the EU and weaken support for Ukraine.