This paper examines the case study of Russia's violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and its disinformation campaign that followed. It provides evidence that supports the idea that when a state violates an international convention and then attempts to cover up this violation up with disinformation, they are employing a potentially ineffective strategy with broad ramifications. This paper reveals an aspect of Russia’s information vulnerability, and ultimately, suggests the transcendent importance of an international organization that maintains rules and the centrality of facts in its operation. Finally, it concludes that neoliberal institutionalist notions about rules, principles, and their effect on the behavior of states have held up in the case of Russia in the OPCW.