Attacking the EU Ambassador In a clear attempt to discredit the EU, the Russian online outlet News Front published an article claiming that the EU’s ambassador to Russia “wants to see Russia fall apart,” This disinformation became...
Why hide it? Why are the managers of the site trying to hide the fact that the site is Russian? Well, one reason might be that it gives Russian pro-Kremlin media a possibility to quote “International Media.” We can note references to...
“The control is total” “It is well known that the major Russian media, and especially television, are under the control of the authorities,” so the independent Russian online outlet Proekt begins its investigative article, and...
The concept is usually cultivated among die-hard conspiracy theorists, and it occasionally appears in popular culture. We find conspiracy theories involving powerful people in James Bond movies, in Tintin comic books, in novels like the Da...
Instructions from the Kremlin Back in 2011, the official outcome of the elections to Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, was questioned by many Russians, some of whom even took to the streets with protests. And Russian state TV only...
According to the paper, the critical element of Russia’s hybrid warfare is information warfare, defined as “a comprehensive and concerted state-sponsored influence campaign designed to steer social debate, hijack political,...
On one single day, 16 January, Mr. Korotchenko published no fewer than 13 (thirteen!) tweets devoted to President Grybauskaitė. The president is depicted inspecting a military unit in Lithuania; Mr. Korotchenko’s captions have an...
The report inscribes itself in Russian state media’s long-term campaign to misrepresent and denigrate Ukraine and its allies. At the same time, the story is an example of the tendency in pro-Kremlin media to portray international...
In late November, a scandal erupted in the largest Russian media. Propaganda publications told us about the “British anti-Russian program,” The Integrity Initiative, which, according to RIA Novosti, “was used to interfere in the...
This is according to a study by the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, whose authors note that new approaches to tackling disinformation are “flourishing” as online efforts to manipulate public opinion become an...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
