VILNIUS, Lithuania, March 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — A VANGUARD digital information campaign launched today (Tuesday) will personally contact up to 40 million Russians in an effort to stop the war in Ukraine.
The #CallRussia initiative aims to circumvent Vladimir Putin’s propaganda and information blackouts, by activating the Russian diaspora around the world to arm Russians with facts about Putin’s brutal and unlawful aggression against Ukraine.
A global network of technology, advertising and communications professionals has compiled the #CallRussia project’s database of 40 million Russian phone numbers and coded a technology platform that assigns them to Russian-speaking volunteer callers. The project was deployed from Vilnius, Lithuania.
#CallRussia says it now needs Russian speakers around the world to counter Putin’s propaganda and break his accelerated information blockade, one phone call at a time.
“While Vladimir Poutine rain down horror on Ukraine and hides news sources who might reveal its lies, #CallRussia will personally connect Russians and volunteers for the most important conversations of their lives,” said one of the organizers of #CallRussia, Paulius Senūta, a creative of Vilnius.
“One conversation cannot defeat Putin’s evil propaganda, but 40 million people could. Only Russians with truth and compassion can stand up to Putin’s lies and end this war.”
The campaign website www.CallRussia.org will assign individual numbers to each volunteer, provide peaceful, non-confrontational guidelines for a conversation aimed at countering Russian disinformation, and track the outcome of calls, as well as collect suggestions for new campaigns to end the war and support the people of Ukraine.
“#CallRussia will be the biggest and most important decentralized phone bank in history, because we believe that only Russians can stop Vladimir Putin now. Only the truth can stop the killing,” Senūta added.
“Putin is lying to Russians about where their sons are being sent to die and what atrocities are being committed in their name. #CallRussia is a news service that will bypass Putin’s propaganda machine and provide verifiable facts that will empower honest Russians to rise up and forge a path of peace. The world is counting on them.
For more information, visit www.CallRussia.org and follow #CallRussia on Twitter, Facebookand instagram
SOURCE CallRussia