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Estonia Weekly: NATO Summit Fuels Kremlin Disinformation
Pro-Kremlin voices on social media depicted NATO as aggressive and divided, criticizing Baltic defence moves and mocking Western leadership. In Estonia, Russian-speaking groups amplified nuclear tensions and spread false claims about EU opposition to Ukraine’s membership to support Kremlin narratives.
Read moreLatvia Weekly: Pro-Kremlin Disinformation Paints the Baltics as NATO Pawns
Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels systematically portray Baltic states as irrational "Russophobes" and Western puppets while threatening them with destruction. These channels employ historical revisionism, dehumanizing language, and claims of Western abandonment to undermine Baltic sovereignty and create divisions within NATO and the EU.
Read moreLatvia Weekly: Kremlin Propaganda Spins Trump-Putin Call
Following the Trump-Putin telephone conversation, Kremlin-aligned Telegram channels celebrated by pushing narratives that portrayed Russia as an ascendant power in direct dialogue with the US, while depicting the EU and Baltic states as increasingly irrelevant and desperate. Their messaging combined ridicule with threatening undertones.
Read moreEstonia Weekly: Pro-Kremlin Narratives Target Defense Efforts and EU Diplomacy
Anti-Estonian criticism has been triggered by military drills and a private company's idea to supply air-defence missiles to Ukraine. In addition, pro-Kremlin groups discuss EU High Representative Kaja Kallas' actions, including her visit to Kyiv and refusal to meet Lavrov on Malta.
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