First the hard data: News Front was established in November 2014 at the web host reg.ru. It was visited by slightly below 5 million in March 2019. Half their audience is in Russia, 22% in Ukraine, 4.6 in Bulgaria and 3.11 in Germany. The...
In the third article of his series on Moscow’s influence operations in the West, Igor Eidman says that Putin has established five “fifth columns” in Germany. In many Western countries, Moscow has used a carrot and stick approach to...
Russian sociologist Igor Eidman has posted the second in a promised series of articles exposing the falsehoods contained in Kremlin propaganda. In the first, he discussed the contradictory messages Moscow sends to marginal groups in the...
In Soviet times, Moscow was able to attract support from the far left in other countries; but under Vladimir Putin, there has been a remarkable change, Igor Eidman says. Now, Moscow is viewed positively not only by the far left but it...
StopFake’s newest research analyzes the content of talk shows on two Ukrainian opposition TV channels, NewsOne and 112. And the researchers have found that the oppositional TV channels tend to give airtime to promoting...
In short, Facebook has managed to identify 364 pages that claim to be independent news pages, but in reality – a part of a coordinated operation, lead from Russian state actors. In this case – state-owned Russian agency, Sputnik....
What a year it’s been! 2018 will go down as the year NASA successfully landed a probe on Mars, Norway won a record of 39 medals at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and the EU raised the possibility of harmonizing summertime and...
A child-trafficking ring run from a pizza-parlor basement by the US Presidential candidate and her team – who would believe this stuff? In the midst of the US Presidential campaign in 2016, quite a few people did. And some even...
In the wake of the Helsinki summit, Moscow’s state information service Russia Today baldly declared that “Russia has defeated the US in the information war,” arguing that this had happened because Russia with its centralized approach...
A crucial part of Russian propaganda is also deception game about serious counter-disinformation activities and faking the concern about “fake news.” “Thief cries, catch the thief!” When pro-Kremlin commentators...
When Ukrainian prosecutors released audio intercepts that appeared to show the direct involvement of Kremlin top advisor Sergey Glazyev in Russia’s takeover of Crimea and pro-separatist rallies in eastern Ukraine in August 2016, they...
