The Mission together with the NSDC Center for Countering Disinformation held a working meeting on “Narratives around Crimea in the English-language media space: current situation”.

The experts and journalists who took part in the event discussed the Report on the results of the Cambridge University research on narratives about Crimea in the English-language segments of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram after the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022. There was also a presentation of the NSDC’s Center for Countering Disinformation on the study of the Crimean segment in Telegram

In her introductory remarks, Ms. Tasheva told the audience about the narratives about Crimea that are still present in the information spaces of international partners, as well as about working with them.

“There are a lot of such narratives. We try to work with them on a rather individual level, telling them, explaining them to diplomats and journalists. Sometimes we do this through a historical retrospective. It is clear that there are still a number of countries that may look at Crimea through a certain Russian optic, and it is extremely important to work with these countries, because Ukraine’s victory and de-occupation of the peninsula should become an idea for the whole world. We are currently considering the possibility of opening Ukrainian studios abroad to be able to tell a wider audience about Crimea and Ukraine and their historical connection,” the Permanent Representative said.

Such studies and their discussion are an important step towards the cognitive de-occupation of Crimea and Russian propaganda myths around the peninsula.