When one country invades another and occupies part of its territory, the victim normally breaks diplomatic relations with the aggressor. But despite the fact that Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, has illegally annexed part of Ukraine’s...
The report inscribes itself in Russian state media’s long-term campaign to misrepresent and denigrate Ukraine and its allies. At the same time, the story is an example of the tendency in pro-Kremlin media to portray international...
Read also on the Russian troops on the Ukrainian soil: The 75 Russian military units at war in Ukraine What we know about Russian troops in eastern Ukraine Putin seized Crimea with regular army but outsourced action in Donbas The hidden...
The demographic portrait of the region: how Russian propaganda used it The ethnicity map of Ukraine suggests that Putin had a reason to target the territories of Donbas and Crimea. These are the regions with the smallest percentage of...
In late November, a scandal erupted in the largest Russian media. Propaganda publications told us about the “British anti-Russian program,” The Integrity Initiative, which, according to RIA Novosti, “was used to interfere in the...
This is according to a study by the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, whose authors note that new approaches to tackling disinformation are “flourishing” as online efforts to manipulate public opinion become an...
2018: Assessing the damage Read also: Ukraine-related narratives dominate Russian propaganda – disinformation watchdogs Out of the 212 reports appearing in the “anti-fake” section of the independent Russian outlet The Insider in...
New Year is a time for resolutions, but can also be a time of uncertainty. What better moment to play on the fear of the unknown and to dig out old, well-known deterrents? This time, pro-Kremlin disinformation put migrants in the bogeymen...
Since Russia unleashed its hybrid war on Ukraine back in 2014, it has been trying various means to weaken Ukraine and force the Russian agenda, ranging from the staged protests and provocations within Ukraine to back the pushed propaganda...
Out of over 1000 cases that EU vs Disinfo has collected in 2018, Ukraine emerges again as a primary (and constant) target. However, this year we also witnessed pro-Kremlin disinformation megaphones directed heavily at the EU and in...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
