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...
The group of researchers from 14 countries led by Kyiv-based think-tank “Ukrainian Prism” looked for answers and came up with a comprehensive overview of resilience to disinformation and the quantitative Disinformation Resilience...
Editor’s Note Last week as always, Ukraine was in the focus of Russian propaganda. Here are just a few narratives of the last week’s Russian propaganda on Ukraine: In the weird world of Russian disinformation, Ukraine was planning...
A new study by the Ukraine Crisis Media Center says that between July1, 2014, and December 31, 1917, a third of all news stories on the three major Moscow television stations was devoted to Ukraine and that “more than 90 percent” of...
At first glance, Vladimir Pastukhov says, Moscow’s approach to the Skripal scandal appears “irrational and inadequate, in fact, the Kremlin is acting precisely according to ‘a protocol’ developed earlier” following the political...
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...
When Shakespeare wrote the famous words “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” he pointed to the fact that what matters is what something is, not what it is called. A war by any other name This week in pro-Kremlin...
Most people in the West continue to make two “fatal” mistakes about the media in Putin’s Russia, Igor Yakovenko says. They assume that Russians who call themselves journalists are in fact journalists and that Russian propaganda is...
December is a month when news outlets routinely compile lists of the best or worst events of the year, of inventions made and wars started or stopped, and of those who have died over the last 12 months. But thanks to Vladimir Putin, a new...
The Russian Duma has declared that Kyiv’s decision to make Ukrainian the language of instruction in Ukrainian schools is “’an act of ethnocide’ of the ethnic Russian people in Ukraine, thus denouncing in another what Moscow is...
Four years after the Euromaidan Revolution, many people are wondering what it changed, and what it brought Ukraine. What is your opinion? I look at it from another point of view. It wasn’t Euromaidan that changed something – it was...
