As the target of more than 15 cases this week, Poland is still in the cross-hairs of pro-Kremlin disinformation. The first indication of this trend came in late December when President Putin described the Kremlin’s worldview during his...
The pro-Kremlin media started its well-oiled disinformation machinery along well-known narratives: profit-hungry Ukrainians used an old, derelict aircraft, ready for scrapping; only the US had the capacity to shoot down the aircraft –...
The Russian writer Andrey Arkhangelsky, featured earlier on our website, writes in an essay (in Russian) how the Kremlin deliberately fosters resentment. For example, the Kremlin is preparing for the 75th anniversary of the victory over...
Based on our research, we were able to come up with close to 30 countries where Sputnik has created a web page. Those countries range from Vietnam to Armenia and include languages like Arabic, Dari, and Persian. While some Sputniks have up...
As if there weren’t enough problems in the world, the Americans are also taking a quick stroll in Latin America to organize a coup in Bolivia that can be replicated in Russia and then used to dictate their will to the French. In...
This week was a masterclass of the pro-Kremlin media’s expert tactics of distraction, moral relativism, and whataboutism: that is, attempting to discredit an opponent’s position by accusing them of hypocrisy, usually without any...
Read also: “Someone said that the referendum in Crimea was legitimate” in Russian news Macron is “aware” Earlier this month, a number of pro-Kremlin media disseminated the story that Ukrainians living outside Ukraine condemn the...
Three core messages Immediately after the reports of a suspected chemical attack in Syrian Douma appeared, Russia reignited its disinformation campaign on the use of chemical weapons in Syria. This time, the efforts focused on three main...
Very detailed evidence Now, almost three years after, very detailed evidence has been gathered about the event. The governments of the states who lost most citizens in the catastrophe have set up a Joint Investigation Team (JIT), which has...
Several Russian-language outlets reported that visitors of the “Green Day” festival in the Ukrainian city of Oleshky (Kherson Oblast) suffered from food poisoning. The cause: an attempt to set a new Ukrainian record with a massive open...
– It was September (1932-Ed). I was sitting in the sleeping car of the Moscow-Kharkiv express train that was taking me to my new job. … In the daytime, the bleak, suffering land looked even more frightening than at night. At...
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