{"id":139946,"date":"2025-09-23T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139946"},"modified":"2025-09-23T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:42:09","slug":"politico-eu-russia-floods-czech-election-with-disinformation-as-babis-leads-in-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139946","title":{"rendered":"(Politico EU) Russia floods Czech election with disinformation as Babi\u0161 leads in polls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There\u2019s a great deal at stake in the upcoming Czech election \u2014&nbsp;for Russia. So perhaps it\u2019s no wonder that Czechia has been flooded by pro-Russian disinformation of late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A victory by populist right-winger Andrej Babi\u0161,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/czech-republic\/\">who is ahead in the polls<\/a>, would see him join Viktor Orb\u00e1n and Robert Fico around the EU table. The Hungarian and Slovak leaders are on friendly terms with Russian President Vladimir Putin and have consistently torpedoed EU unity on Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incumbent Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala has framed the Oct. 3-4 vote as no less than a battle over the country\u2019s geopolitical future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-czechia-election-votes-disinformation-vladimir-putin-eu-petr-fiala\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russia has flooded the Czech election with disinformation as populist right-winger Andrej Babi\u0161 leads in the polls. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/em6KI3M9Mf\">https:\/\/t.co\/em6KI3M9Mf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POLITICOEurope\/status\/1970391666314858960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a great deal at stake in the upcoming Czech election \u2014&nbsp;for Russia. So perhaps it\u2019s no wonder that Czechia has been flooded by pro-Russian disinformation of late. A victory by populist right-winger Andrej Babi\u0161,&nbsp;who is ahead in the polls,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139946\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,200,144,133,151,479,453,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech-republic","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-russia","category-turkey","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139946"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139952,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139946\/revisions\/139952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}