The pro-Kremlin ecosystem has established its talking points on Lukashenko’s act of, in the words of the CEO of Ryanair, “state-sponsored piracy”. All the Kremlin-controlled media outlets repeat the same two mantras: “Everybody does it!” and “Protasevich is a Bad Guy”.
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EUvsDisinfo: Russian propaganda denigrating Belarusian dissident Protasevich
Belarusian journalist and activist Roman Protasevich, 26, appears in an undated video released by a Belarusian Telegram channel and shared on the Belarus state TV. In the video, Protasevich reads out what appears to be a forced confession of organizing mass protests in Belarus.