In the United States has announced a grant of $250 thousand for a report on Russian and Soviet disinformation campaigns on health

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Bureau of international public Affairs of the US state Department announced a grant of 250 thousand dollars for the preparation of a report about Russian and Soviet disinformation campaigns on health. The application published on the platform grant.gov

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Bureau of international public Affairs of the US state Department announced a grant of 250 thousand dollars for the preparation of a report about Russian and Soviet disinformation campaigns on health. The application published on the platform grant.gov.

The grant is intended for organizations with experience “in countering Russian disinformation analysis and programming”. According to the application purpose of such a report should be to identify and “raising awareness” about such efforts. No details about the contents of the report or to what period of time should be studied misinformation campaign, was not reproduced. It is also unclear whether it is relevant to pandemic coronavirus.

In the fight for the award will attend U.S. and foreign non-profit organizations, educational institutions and commercial structures. Private individuals, public administrations and local governments, foreign public organizations and public international organizations are not eligible to apply. The deadline for the applications is June 20, the contest will take place in one step.

American and European media did not pay any attention to this grant, but he overreacted to the Russian Embassy in the United States, saying that “influential Russophobic forces in Washington… never cease destructive activities” and do not pay attention to “signals emanating from the head of their own state”.

“These grants reveal the true mood, thoughts and way of thinking of partners from the state Department. Even in a period of severe global epidemic, when we – and Russia and the United States – are losing thousands of citizens, and all would have to unite the efforts are focused on the search for an external enemy. On it is supposed to be guilt – totally or partially – for the shortcomings of their own authorities,” – said on the website of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Facebook.

The Embassy predicted that the grant of the state Department will receive a “well-known” non-governmental organizations, and the main object of their investigation will be “RT and Sputnik, which was allegedly called “not washing hands” (this pacnews)”, the report said diplomats.

Informed painful reaction of the Russian authorities has caused the publication of the authoritative American publications The New York Times and the Financial Times about possible unreported deaths from COVID-19 in Russia. Foreign Ministry demanded rebuttal, Roskomnadzor demanded that Google block the article “MBH media”, written in material Financial Times, and the Prosecutor’s office found that there was “incitement to riot”. The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that “further steps in relation to the FT and NYT will depend on if they publish a retraction”. In the state Duma urged to take action against Newspapers until the withdrawal of their accreditation in Russia.