For more than 20 months, since late January 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak has been among the dominant topics in the pro-Kremlin flow of disinformation. The first piece of disinformation, published by a Russian state outlet several months before the World Health Organisation declared the outbreak a pandemic, claimed that the virus had been artificially designed in NATO labs. Since then we have seen claims that the virus only affects people of the “Asian Race” or that the virus is designed to create a New World Order.
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Waiters hold trays of champagne ready for a reception while Russia's President Vladimir Putin is seen on a TV screen as he speaks during the final plenary meeting of the 'Valdai' International Discussion Club members in the Russian town of Valday some 360 kilometers northwest of Moscow, on Sept. 19, 2013.
