Kremlin Propaganda in Focus: How the Eu Has Become an Enemy in the Eyes of Russia

Abstract

The EU's increasing attention to the phenomenon of information warfare has not gone far enough to properly investigate how the Kremlin's propaganda machine operates in Russia itself. The Kremlin uses internal propaganda both to maintain legitimacy and as a defence mechanism against the outside world. This paper scrutinises the Kremlin's propaganda and its popular narratives about the EU in order to understand how Russia's media presents the EU and why less than a quarter of the population has a positive opinion of it.

Footnotes

Kristina Potapova is a former team member at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, interested in Russia's Information Warfare and EU relations with Russia.