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...
Even as the United States and other Western countries wrestle with the question of how involved Russian operatives were in recent elections and referendums in their countries, Moscow appears to be upping the ante by sending more such...
As awareness about the issue of disinformation grows globally, those working for RT and Sputnik find themselves under increasing scrutiny, and whistleblowers begin to appear more frequently. Thanks to testimonies that surface from inside...
Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putin’s Russia and some are even celebrating that the West has already been taking the necessary first steps in that direction, but such appeals and even more such celebrations fail to...
Lenin said that Marxism was powerful because it was true; his successors in the Kremlin have been as successful with their propaganda as they have been because they carefully tailor their messages and techniques to whatever audiences they...
Moscow commentator Andrey Malgin delivers a warning that no one should ignore: Vladimir Putin, he argues, “will use Western values like direct democracy (referenda), freedom of speech and assembly and all the rest for the destruction of...
Warsaw — Kremlin “trolls” have launched a massive campaign to discredit Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Polish Internet space. Polish analysts note that an unprecedented wave of anti-Ukrainian propaganda on the Web first...
Moscow now views the Internet as its primary propaganda channel in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania because that medium reaches the young whereas Russian-language television to the extent that it has an impact at all affects primarily those...
Popular Ukrainian users of Facebook who are increasingly being blocked on the social network are convinced that this is the result of Russia’s information war against Ukraine that uses so-called bots in Russia to generate thousands...
Many assume that Russians who turn to the Internet will form very different opinions about Vladimir Putin than do those who rely on state television because web surfers have access to so many independent news sites. But that assumption is...
Here is everything you need to know about one of the most disturbing scenarios unraveling in a European institution. What does PACE do, anyway? PACE, the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, is the “motor” of this institution...
