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Kremlin said it doubled media spending from €630 million last year to €1.2 billion this year (Photo: kremlin.ru)

No joke: Russian propaganda poses EU threat

In a recent TV show with high-school pupils, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that his country's borders "do not end anywhere".

He said it as a joke, but in the context of Russia's invasion of Georgia and Ukraine, its bloodbath in Syria, and its military build-up in the Baltic region, it wasn't funny.

A lot of Europeans think that Russian propaganda does not concern them.

They think that its provocations are just games and that people like me, who come from former Sovie...

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Petras Austrevicius is a Lithuanian MEP and the vice-chairman of the liberal Alde group in the European Parliament.

Kremlin said it doubled media spending from €630 million last year to €1.2 billion this year (Photo: kremlin.ru)

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Petras Austrevicius is a Lithuanian MEP and the vice-chairman of the liberal Alde group in the European Parliament.

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