COVID-19 as a Tool of Information Confrontation

President Vladimir and researchers, the work of The School of Public Policy and its Putin, who has labelled the fall of the Soviet Union nearly 30 years ago as “the students contributes to a more greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century, is determined to show meaningful and informed public the international community that Russia is no longer the weak creature it was debate on fiscal, [...] After the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis in late 2013 and the introduction of anti- Russian economic sanctions for the illegal annexation of Crimea in March 2014, Moscow strengthened its disinformation onslaught. [...] Yevgeny Fedorov, leader of the United Russian Political Party, even requested that Alexander Bastrykin, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, launch an official investigation into the “artificial creation of the COVID-19 for the purpose of its employment as a type of biological weapon” (Regnum 2020). [...] COVID-19 AND RUSSIAN NARRATIVES: THE SIMPLE, THE TRICKY AND THE SOPHISTICATED With COVID-19, Russia’s approach to disinformation is similar. [...] For example, Russia’s largest state-sponsored platforms have extensively used accounts by the wife of Washington Capitals’ star sniper Alexander Ovechkin, who complained about the spreading sense of panic and uncertainty in the U. S., and the shortage of goods and commodities.