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P rominent Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan said she wishes Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke more about "conservative values" during his interview with Tucker Carlson.
- False Narrative 1: NATO “Encirclement” and Russia “Is Not The Aggressor”
- False Narrative 2: “Ukrainian Provocations” and “Genocide Against Donbas”
- False Narrative 3: “Denazification and Demilitarization”
- False Narrative 4: Reframing The War from “Denazification” to “Desatanization.”
- False Narrative 5: “Defending Russia’s Sovereignty” Against The West
- Conclusion: “Our Historic Lands”
One of the earliest Kremlin-fabricated justifications for war is the false claim that NATO and “the West” are aggressors threatening Russia’s security. For months leading up to February 24, 2022, Russia demanded security guarantees including restrictions on countries’ joining NATO, a position which rejected Ukraine’s and other countries’ sovereign ...
While Russia promoted the myth of NATO aggression, it simultaneously attempted to falsely portray Ukraine as planning military action against ethnic Russians in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. In January 2022, Russian Federation officials alleged Kyiv sent “half of its military personnel” to the Russian-occupied areas of Donbas and that Ukrai...
President Putin invoked the Kremlin’s most persistent disinformation narrative in his pre-dawn February 24 speech launching the full-scale invasion. He said “the purpose of this operation is to protect people who for eight years now have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kyiv regime. To this end, we will seek to demilitarize a...
As the war reaches the one-year mark, the Kremlin’s attempts to justify its unjustifiable actions have extended to claims that it is fighting “Western Satanism.” Although Kremlin propagandists demonized Ukrainians as Satanists at least since April 2022, President Putin’s characterization of so-called Western values as “outright Satanism” in his Sep...
As Putin’s plans for sham referenda and a military mobilization collided with Ukraine’s counter-offensive in September 2022, the Kremlin rhetorically turned its war of choice into a war of necessity “to defend Russia’s sovereignty.” Only a year since the Kremlin presented its “security demands” to allegedly avoid conflict, it has come full circle, ...
The courage and resilience of the people of Ukraine, their absolute commitment to defending their country’s independence and democracy, the unity of effort among the United States and our allies and partners in supporting Ukraine’s self-defense, and the global condemnation of Russia’s aggression, have pushed the Kremlin to continuously dance from o...
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Aug 31, 2022 · Margarita Simonyan is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s main faces of propaganda and disinformation, both internationally and inside Russia. She is adept at serving up lies as truths — and with a smile.
Margarita Simonyan She once described information as a “weapon like any other” and is fervently loyal to President Putin, receiving a state award for her work personally from him last year.
Mar 19, 2018 · RT's Top Editor Toasts Putin: 'He Used To Be Our President; Now He Is Our Leader'. March 19, 2018 16:59 GMT. By RFE/RL. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Margarita Simonyan, the chief editor...
Margarita Simonyan. Margarita Simonovna Simonyan [a] (born 6 April 1980) is a Russian media executive. She is the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT, [1] [2] [3] as well as the state-owned media group Rossiya Segodnya. [4] She covered the Second Chechen War in the 2000s while working as a journalist.
