How the Kremlin recruits hackers By spreading its ideology of “spiritual moral values” combined with “patriotism” Moscow gains volunteers who wish to enforce these values both online and offline. Recent footage of the Russian...
Information warfare (IW), including specific forms of it like disinformation and deep fakes, has become a global fact of life and is being deployed globally for the pursuit of strategic advantage. In all its forms, not just the two...
In April 2015, the message “Guantanamo Near Donetsk: Ukraine has been building a concentration camp for the separatists” headlined a story published by Zvezda, the official outlet of Russia’s Ministry of Defence. The story also...
Does the Hybrid War actually work? In the aftermath of the first round of the presidential election in Ukraine, that question has become more relevant than ever. Additionally, it triggers the need for new predictions for 2019 and beyond....
In 2018, the Ukrainian side of the Trilateral Contact Group on settlement of the conflict in Ukraine (TCG or the Minsk group) managed to release only one Ukrainian serviceman from the ORDLO, or the occupied part of country’s...
The Soviet military developed the concept of “metacontact” in the mid-’80s and it has since been successfully used in combat in Chechnya: Anyone mastering the means of metacontact can, for instance, perform a non-verbal...
The Elites vs. the Losers The narratives in this category seek to instill an inferiority complex in the reader, both on a personal and national level, and to drum up opposition to the political establishment. One case, for example,...
When on 3 April, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of Russia’s third-largest party LDPR, declared that he will recognize Ukrainian elections only if the winner is comic-turned-candidate Volodymyr Zelenskyy, it came as no surprise....
The Duma on first reading has voted to approve amendments to the administrative code that would impose fines on anyone preparing or distributing foreign news on the territory of Russia if they do so without permission from the Russian...
In the middle of a live-streamed marathon coverage of Sunday’s elections in Ukraine, Russian state TV host Olga Skabeyeva told her co-host, Yevgeniy Popov: “We’re not on TV right now — we can tell the truth.” Was this a...
Is the conflict domestic or international? In December 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Ukraine-related part of their “Report on Preliminary Examination Activities” has repeated the...
