“You Always Place Me Between Two Foreigners” What just happened? Did Russian state media decide to drop disinformation and replace it with a democratic debate? Since when has the criticism of the authorities been allowed on prime-time...
Vladimir Putin’s agitprop now offers two different versions of the war against Ukraine, one “for the unconditionally dense and a second for the nominally intelligent.” The first is delivered to the mass Russian television audience;...
In a speech held in Strasbourg on 23 October, EU’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, referred to the Black Sea as “a European sea.” Russia’s state-controlled RIA Novosti found her statement so controversial that...
Recently the Ukrainian-hosted “Clear Sky 2018” – a 12-day joint multinational military exercise – concluded. And NATO’s Trident Juncture 18, one of the largest military exercises ever held in Norway, was launched on 25 October....
The word recently gained traction in Russia after columnist Oleg Kashin published an article in the magazine Republic headlined: “State Duma to Deal with Masturbation: Where Does the Meaningless News about Onishchenko and Pushkov...
A young woman walks up to a man in a subway train and pours liquid over him from a plastic bottle. The scene is repeated a number of times with different men who all react with anger and bewilderment. We are told that they are being...
“Russophobic sentiment in the media is being ratcheted up in France under the pretext of countering disinformation.” This statement was delivered by Maria Zakharova, spokesperson of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...
Western governments, worried about Russia’s propaganda war against the West, often talk about blocking messages from the Kremlin; but they seldom focus on the extent to which people in countries targeted by the Kremlin turn into...
The Kremlin uses a variety of instruments to indirectly influence the media in the Black Sea Region countries (Bulgaria, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Armenia). This conclusion was voiced over in Kyiv during the round-table “Diagnosing...
Pro-Kremlin news sites have an ambiguous view of international organizations (especially those related to human rights) and their recommendations. When these organizations stand up for LGBT rights they are accused of destruction of “true...
Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special services (SVR, GRU, and even the FSB). This revelation was based on a misinterpretation of a report about the scale of Russian...
