Rada committee blames Ukraine’s top brass for deadly Ilovaisk battle preceding Minsk deal
Ilovaisk became one of the most bloody pages of the contemporary Russo-Ukrainian war. Ukrainian forces were surrounded by…
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Belarusian propaganda machine launches attacks to support regime’s instrumentalization of migrants
Against this backdrop, the EU Commission has called for EU member states to approve an extended sanctions regime against…
Pro-Kremlin media scaremongering about “threatened sovereignty” this week: disinformation review
COVID-19 continues to be a popular topic for the producers of disinformation: This week EU vs Disinfo documented…
The Kremlin could instantly end Europe’s gas crisis by restoring transit through Ukraine
Europe is facing an unprecedented surge in natural gas prices, threatening a large-scale energy crisis. The targeted actions…
SBU says it prevented Russian agent’s arson attack on Hungarian consulate
According to the SBU report of 6 October, the agency prevented terrorist acts in the border area of…
Disinforming aftermath of curbing disinformation: Russian propaganda targets YouTube’s action against RT
Last week, YouTube deleted RT’s German-language channels over violations of the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy and its terms of service.…
Hungary to continue blocking Ukraine’s NATO membership talks
Gergely Gulyás said it on 29 September at a government briefing, commenting on Ukrainian objections to the Hungarian-Russian…
Obey the Kremlin or pay up: why the EU’s heating bills will skyrocket this winter
Contents The endgame to Kremlin’s blackmail Gazprom worked strategically to monopolize the market and supplies Subsidiaries in Europe…
Russian propaganda’s main message to Ukraine: you’re under “external governance” – study
The report's authors conclude that the informational influence of Russia on Ukrainian society remains "relevant and systemic," "the…
Ukraine’s security service busts Russian bot farm that undermined COVID-19 vaccination program
The Russian handlers designed the bot farm as a tool to disseminate fake information among Ukrainian Internet users…
From hybrid war to buying weapons: Belarus as week’s primary target of Russian propaganda
Disinformation cases collected this week consider, among others, Belarus. They include rather uneasy narratives such as hybrid war facing the…
Exploiting the crisis in Afghanistan: Russian and Chinese media draw parallels with Ukraine and Taiwan
Almost in unison, Russian and Chinese state-controlled media outlets continue to draw direct (and false) parallels between Afghanistan…
Trading socialism for chewing gum: Kremlin building military doctrine on self-deception
The Kremlin leadership has cultivated a special brand of “Dolchstosslegende” since the collapse of the Soviet Union 30…
Kremlin’s chronic case of Anglophobia: mental war and Anglo-Zionist empire among week’s propaganda narratives
Russian official documents on security policy usually identify the US as the Bad Guy in international relations. Recently,…
Ukraine’s largest online education platform to launch course on disinformation (we helped create it)
Ukraine's largest online education platform Prometheus is launching the free course “Disinformation: Types, Tools, and Countermeasures” The course…
Ukraine, Crimean Platform, and the Witches’ Sabbath: this week’s Russian propaganda
The fact that seven years after the events unraveled on the Maidan square in Kyiv the Kremlin media…
Afghanistan and Lithuanian-Belarusian border crises: this week’s Russian disinformation targets
As the international community reckons with the fall of Kabul and Afghanistan itself into the Taliban’s hands, the…
The five biggest trifles of disinformation
“There is nothing as important as trifles." - Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”…
Baltic-Russian borders today: A reversal of fortune from the First Cold War
Now, once again, barriers are going up between East and West not everywhere but where they are it…
Reflexive control and hybrid warfare: an introduction into the 21st century Cold War
The first time I ever came across the term “reflexive control” was when I was reading a 2019…