The wiretapped recording from 2012 contains the voice attributed to the then-head of the Belarusian KGB Vadym Zaitsev, who discusses planned assassinations of critics of Lukashenka’s regime with officers from the elite Alpha KGB...
In 2020, Europeans view Ukraine more positively than in 2015, although negative perceptions still prevail. Meanwhile, awareness of the war against Russia has dropped. In order to understand popular attitudes towards Ukraine, the New...
Information laundering is a process within an information influence campaign. Through the process of ‘laundering’ hostile actors try to legitimize deceitful information through a network of intermediaries. They apply a set of...
Let’s take a look at how Russia remembers its history. For example, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently tried to falsify Russia’s responsibility in WWII. Putin suggested, at the beginning of 2020, that, according to “his...
At the beginning of October 2020, the Akademik Cherskiy—the only Russian pipe-laying ship capable of completing the construction of the Nord Stream Two natural gas pipeline—began its sea trials following five-month-long upgrades at the...
Trenin writes, “Berlin is ending the era launched by Gorbachev of a trusting and friendly relationship with Moscow.” The sentence implies that the break in the relations is a German initiative, rather than a response to a...
Last week, US President Donald Trump nominated a retired US army colonel Douglas Macgregor, the 1991 Gulf War hero, as ambassador to Germany. The US Senate still needs to confirm Trump’s choice of Mcgregor. The White House statement...
In July, Germany assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union Council. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, German Minister of Defence, stated on 14 July 2020 that one of Germany’s priorities during its presidency will be the...
“The reason, no matter how banal, is the continuous flow of Russian propaganda. Some may think that the information war is just Russian talk shows and fake news. However, this is far from the case,” said Valentyna Bykova, a media...
While the United States struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, Russia has deployed two pipe-laying vessels to the Baltic Sea in a suspected attempt to complete the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline. On May 12, Russian pipe layer...
On 23 June 1978, a Soviet police officer came to the house of a Crimean Tatar Musa Mamut to escort him to a meeting with a prosecutor. Mamut was legally not allowed to live in Crimea, due to his nationality. In fact, he had just returned...
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