Russian media continue to lie to Europeans about Ukraine: sites bypass EU blocking

Due to the Russia Today Domain Domains and the like, millions of views continue to be collected on it. According to a study by the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, despite the EU sanctions against Russian state media, Europeans still have access to their sites, although traffic has decreased by three -quarters, Vice. com reports. It turned out that the Russian Federation found a way to make a ban on and allow audiences from the EU to visit sites, creating so -called bypass domains.

These domains continue to send readers to Russian propaganda content. Although technically bypass domains are also subject to EU sanctions, cyber police of different European countries are more condescending, the material says. The expert at the Strategic Dialogue Institute, Jordan Wildon said that bypass domains often contain additional signs such as a hyphen, and in the other they fully correspond to the writing of the prohibited URL. "Add a hyphen and you get a new domain," he commented.

"And this domain will lead you to the same content as on the forbidden site. " Researchers have found 12 domains identical to RT (Russia Today - Ed. ). All of them were registered in Moscow, and all of them were created within a few weeks after the invasion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. "At that time, it was a preventive measure against sanctions," Wildon said.

Although bypass domains did not compensate for the EU's traffic lost through sanctions, the report states that they still collect millions of views on a monthly basis, being a "critical vector of Russian propaganda, which continues to influence the audience from the European Union. " The research has shown that Russian media disseminated information clearly intended to cause a negative about Ukrainian refugees in Western Europe.

Such materials argued that Ukrainians use preferential regime compared to other refugees, deplete the resources of the receiving countries and pose a threat to security. Also reported "aggression" by Ukrainian refugees, and Ukrainian women were depicted in a sexualized manner. It seems that the official ban on bypass domains is not effectively applied, which reflects a wider problem identified by researchers, related to inconsistent compliance with the ban in different EU countries.