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Building Civic Resilience: Challenges and Solutions in Central Europe
12 December 2024
Belarusian and Russian TV channels build on the fabricated results of the elections and completely ignore Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s probable victory. Instead, they proclaim her a weak-willed toy in the hands of Western puppeteers, invent conspiracy theories pread slander and outright insults against her.
The presentation of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya as a dependent figure, a protegé of “Western puppeteers”, is a classic technique of pro-Kremlin and Belarusian state propaganda.
For many years, the pro-Kremlin media have been using this technique to discredit all objectionable politicians and countries. Alexei Navalny, Poland, the Baltic countries, and Ukraine are just pawns in the game of Western men, the Anglo-Saxons, Washington, the CIA, Soros, and others like them. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has now taken her place in this long line.
Of course, neither the Belarusian nor the Russian state television channels made the slightest attempt to deal with the topic of the enormous falsifications of the Belarusian elections.