“Over 40 crews of harvester operators reached the milestone of 1 thousand tons of grain” – a proud headline informs the readers of a regional news website in the Hrodna (Grodno) Oblast in the west of Belarus. But beyond the...
The INF Treaty On August 2nd, the United States officially withdrew from the INF Treaty, following Russia’s deployment of the SSC-8 missile system, which is nuclear-capable, mobile, hard to detect, and lowers the threshold for the use of...
Of these, 1,000 have been collected only in the span of the last four months. While this is partly due to the increased resources the EU is dedicating to monitoring and countering disinformation, it also shows that the Kremlin’s efforts...
“Delegation from the US calls Crimea Referendum expression of the will of the people.” So the headline ran in a news story published earlier by the Russian state-controlled news agency RIA Novosti. Does this mean that the US is now...
NEO is, to put it shortly, a hardworking disinformation portal. And apparently, the site isn’t content with lying about the subject matter; it even lies about its contributors. A substantial portion of the site’s content is produced by...
Moon conspiracies In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first-ever Sputnik – the artificial Earth satellite – into an elliptical low Earth orbit. And the world has never been the same since. The launch had a direct impact on the...
This Wednesday, 17 July, marked the five-year anniversary of the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 and the death of all 298 people on board. An extensive international investigation – comprising Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands,...
On 7 July, Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselyov, known for his promotion of aggressive Russian propaganda, announced a video-link between the state-owned Russian channel Rossiya-1 and Ukrainian channel NewsOne, comparing its importance with...
“I think it is an exaggeration” In the course of the following day, several Russian and Ukrainian media quoted Ms. Serova’s statements. Some of them questioned if she would, in fact, have been able to follow the trajectory of...
How did that happen? “Complete misrepresentation!” The trick is simple: If you don’t speak Russian, and the interview needs to be dubbed, you lose control over your own comments and leave it to the discretion of the TV channel to...
A report on how Russia pursues hybrid war to destabilize Ukraine has been published on 16 July 2019 at the UK-based Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest independent defense and security think tank. It is the first major...
