Most recently, we learned that comedy movies can be a “planned provocation” and part of a western plot to destabilise Russia. Such are the words from the Russian authorities about Armando Iannucci’s new film, The Death of Stalin. As...
Prominent Russian sociologist and dissident Igor Eidman has started a new Facebook group to “counter Kremlin propaganda” in Germany, as reported by Brian Whitmore of RFE/RL in his daily roundup of trends related to Russia. The group...
Russian special services have been heavily involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. From their officers commanding the so-called ‘separatist’ forces to cyber attacks and old-school spying, Russian authorities have pulled out all...
According to new polls, 60 percent of Ukrainians favor the introduction of international peacekeepers in the Donbas; and 55 percent oppose any special status for that region, a hardening of Ukrainian attitudes about things the Kremlin...
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump may have achieved a certain “chemistry” at their meeting in Hamburg, as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggests; but neither leader has the underlying “physics” that will allow for any real...
Yury Ushakov, an assistant to Vladimir Putin, told the Primakov forum this week that few in the Kremlin expected US-Russian relations to deteriorate following the election of Donald Trump as US president but that is exactly what has...
The murders of key figures in Kyiv are occurring not in order to remove competitors, for revenge, or by accident. They are designed specifically as show executions. The murder of the former Russian State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov cannot...
February 27 will mark exactly six months since the death of my close friend and colleague, Russian and Ukrainian journalist Aleksandr Shchetinin. And the following day, February 28 will mark the second anniversary of the murder of Russian...
A few days ago when the Swiss SVP (Swiss People’s Party) politician Claudio Zanetti inquired via Twitter at #RT and #Sputnik whether an article about media censorship in Russia published by infosperber.ch was accurate, this single tweet...
This quirky E.U. video – poking fun at Moscow’s disinformation campaign – is just one of dozens of social media posts, aiming to raise awareness of the Kremlin attempts to misinform European audiences and sow disunity. In...
Four years since the start of its ‘Euromaidan’ revolution, Ukraine is fighting for its survival as an independent and viable state. But this report is not only about Ukraine’s struggle to hold together and resist Russia’s...
