Soviet Chornobyl-times instinct to lie still omnipresent in Russian propaganda
While Russia has declared a withdrawal from its vast military presence at Ukraine’s borders, Ukraine continues to dominate the flow…
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Russian hybrid war in Ukraine.
NATO prepares to attack, says Kremlin propaganda amid record Russian troop buildup at Ukraine border
There is no data to say for sure whether Russia will attack with its recently amassed 100,000 army…
“Dropping rumor bombs in Ukraine”: Russia’s building up disinformation around its military build-up
Contents Preventively shaped narratives "The strings tying puppet Ukraine" "Internal conflict" Vaccine revulsions and the Anglo-Saxon Order Further…
Donbas: Russia creating fakes on the ground
In early February 2021, Margarita Simonyan, head of the Russian disinformation outlet RT.com, called upon the Russian leadership to…
Disinformation build-up: pro-Kremlin media reinvigorate their focus on Ukraine
Read more on the troop buildup: Four Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donbas as Russia continues troop buildup and…
Sentenced to 24 years by Russian propaganda: report exposes Kremlin disinformation in Markiv case
Information has become central to the Ukraine crisis, with some journalists and experts referring to an information war…
Kremlin propaganda’s conspiracies claim that Ukrainian, Lithuanian leaders faked their vaccinations
Sputnik’s claims were immediately debunked by Lithuanian journalists, and the case was added to the EUvsDisinfo database. Ms. Grybauskaitė received…
The quiet front: the battle of identities in occupied Crimea and Donbas
Contents History weaponized Building a new generation Regional or Russian identity? Read more: History weaponized Just as heavily…
Russia starts a new wave of disinformation on sanctions
The disinformation related to EU sanctions is not a new phenomenon. There are 420 cases on sanctions in…
Internet troll confession: “We provoke a new level of aggression in our victims”
Have you ever imagined what an internet troll looks like? We met one in a Kyiv coffee house.…
Clinging to “Eternal Russia”: disinformation of the week
Contents Inevitability and eternity Eternity leads to a closed media ecosystem Why are eternity and disinformation necessary? Fear…
Grasping at straws: how the pro-Kremlin media tried to legitimize the illegal annexation of Crimea
“Among the many different examples of factually wrong claims that have come out of the Kremlin and media…
Kremlin’s propaganda in the year of the bull
According to the Chinese zodiac, 12 February 2021 marked the beginning of the Year of the Bull. The…
The culture of resentment revisited: this week’s Russian propaganda
“The Russian word обида – obida – umbrage, resentment, pouting, holding a grudge – has become a core element…
“Who’s afraid of Russophobia”: this week’s Russian disinformation review
Life is tough when the whole world is pitted against you, or when you think that it is.…
From the Kremlin without love: disinformation review
This was a busy week for the pro-Kremlin media: besides fending off imaginary “Anglo-Saxon” provocations and disclosing evil…
Russian propaganda’s techniques: flooding the mind with hyperboles
A recent Oxford University study also sheds light on those that spread disinformation. It found that RT TV channel, a super…
The ‘Wagner Affair’ in Belarus and its implications for Ukraine
At the end of last year, former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko (June 2014–May 2019) announced in an interview…
Manufactured support: Kremlin’s pocket journos and Western voices to spread disinformation
Outlets Pretending to be Western Pro-Kremlin media outlets recycle the conspiratorial musings of sympathetic Western bloggers, falsely implying…
The Kremlin and the art of pointing fingers: national whataboutism as Russia’s state ideology
[boxright] A guide to Russian propaganda. Part 2: Whataboutism [/boxright] “Whataboutism” is a rhetorical device to deflect attention…