As the paper highlights, information and communications technologies (ICTs) have created novel opportunities for foreign governments to use social media to influence politics in a range of countries by promoting propaganda, advocating...
TV Rain One of these outlets is TV Rain, which broadcasts television online. TV Rain has been offering live coverage of the protests in Moscow. In addition, the channel has devoted an entire episode of its weekly anti-disinformation...
In the beginning was the website Poland and Ukraine share a long, rich, and sometimes painful history; the nations have a lot in common. According to different statistics, there are approximately 900 thousand to 1,2 million Ukrainian...
Events escalated when two journalists were forced to resign after they had authored an article which relayed inside information about upcoming reshuffles in the top of Russia’s most powerful political circles. Censorship is not a problem...
In April 2015, the message “Guantanamo Near Donetsk: Ukraine has been building a concentration camp for the separatists” headlined a story published by Zvezda, the official outlet of Russia’s Ministry of Defence. The story also...
The Elites vs. the Losers The narratives in this category seek to instill an inferiority complex in the reader, both on a personal and national level, and to drum up opposition to the political establishment. One case, for example,...
Ukrainian presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019 will take place in the context of conventional and hybrid aggression from the Russian side. Thus, the ongoing disinformation campaign ahead of the Ukrainian vote is both an attempt...
Anyone who watches Moscow television would assume the country was in the midst of an election campaign – there are learned discussions of who will win and why, what participation is likely to be, and what role if any outside players have...
There are so many aspects to Vladimir Putin’s “hybrid” war against the West that it is remarkably easy for Moscow to hide what it is doing one place by doing something else elsewhere. That makes the annotated checklist of his...
And the Oscar for fact-editing goes to… Russian filmmakers were not successful at this year’s Oscar award ceremony. It might have been different if pro-Kremlin outlets were part of the competition. Their ideas are at least as creative...
How does one end a war? Any war ends when one side defeats another and the winner achieves some or all of his goals such as “the desired territorial, economic, military or other benefits expected following the successful conclusion...
