In the middle of a live-streamed marathon coverage of Sunday’s elections in Ukraine, Russian state TV host Olga Skabeyeva told her co-host, Yevgeniy Popov: “We’re not on TV right now — we can tell the truth.” Was this a...
In the third article of his series on Moscow’s influence operations in the West, Igor Eidman says that Putin has established five “fifth columns” in Germany. In many Western countries, Moscow has used a carrot and stick approach to...
Interestingly, the study by Internews Ukraine reveals that pro-Kremlin candidates were also subjected to mostly negative coverage, while Ukraine and Ukrainians, in general, general were described in highly pejorative terms such as...
However, Mr. Kiselyov’s statements were picked apart already on the following day in an article titled “Dmitry Kiselyov’s Three Fakes at the Anniversary of Crimea’s Annexation,“ published by the independent Russian outlet The...
Ahead of the 5th anniversary of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, Russian state-funded RIA Novosti published an article under the headline, “German Media Outlets Report on the ‘Renaissance’ of Russian Crimea,” quoting...
Repeating lies year after year doesn’t make them suddenly true. The Collins Dictionary suggests the following synonyms for “wooden, in the sense of awkward”: awkward, stiff, rigid, clumsy, lifeless, stilted, ungainly, gauche, gawky,...
Russian sociologist Igor Eidman has posted the second in a promised series of articles exposing the falsehoods contained in Kremlin propaganda. In the first, he discussed the contradictory messages Moscow sends to marginal groups in the...
For the week of 16-25 November 2018, the BAJ monitored prime-time content of the Belarusian TV channels that comprise the government-approved compulsory publicly available TV package. The research revealed that 30% of the political talk...
In Soviet times, Moscow was able to attract support from the far left in other countries; but under Vladimir Putin, there has been a remarkable change, Igor Eidman says. Now, Moscow is viewed positively not only by the far left but it...
The Ukrainian Law “On Sanctions” states that sanctions have been imposed in order “to protect the national security and territorial integrity of Ukraine, to counteract terrorism, and to prevent violations of the rights,...
Does the Hybrid War actually work? In the aftermath of the first round of the presidential election in Ukraine, that question has become more relevant than ever. Additionally, it triggers the need for new predictions for 2019 and beyond....
