“In Italy, rightwing parties especially have maintained good relations with Putin,” Scavo said. Berlusconi, who served as prime minister three times, nurtured close relations with the Russian president, praising his leadership and helping to forge energy deals that some blame for Italy’s current dependence on Russian gas. Pugliese noted the most Russian propagandists, 12, were hosted by Rete4, a channel from Mediaset, owned by Silvio Berlusconi, an old friend of Putin who, a few months before he died, claimed that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, “provoked” Russia’s invasion.
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“Compared to other western European countries, Italy gave disproportionate exposure to Russian propaganda, in my opinion simply because TV producers wanted to increase their share of certain shows with heated debates,” Pugliese said. Nello Scavo: ‘The problem is that Vladimir Putin has always enjoyed wide sympathy in Italian politics and public opinion’ They include the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and his spokesperson, Maria Zakharova the ultranationalist Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin Olga Belova, a journalist at Russia 24, an outlet that denied the Bucha massacre and Yulia Vityazeva, a journalist at NewsFront – based in Russia-occupied Crimea and operated by the FSB – who, in a Telegram post, wished a bomb would strike the Eurovision song contest in Turin after Ukraine’s victory. Matteo Pugliese, an Italian security and terrorism researcher at the University of Barcelona has tracked the procession of Russian government officials, ideologues and media personalities hosted by Italian TV networks since the Russian invasion. A survey released by Ipsos in April revealed that almost 50% of Italians prefer not to take sides in the conflict. Although Italy’s far-right government is one of Ukraine’s staunchest European supporters, Russian propaganda and disinformation permeates Italian media – something researchers attribute to politics and historical anti-Atlanticism – with openly pro-Russian guests invited on the country’s most popular talkshows.
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