During the Cold War, the Soviets frequently used conspiracy theories to justify their confrontation with the West. The Russian anthropologist Aleksandra Arkhipova asserts that the Putin regime is now doing the same thing with such...
Authors of the recent report entitled “Why Conspiratorial Propaganda Works and What We Can Do About It” have explored the issue of conspirational propaganda in Ukraine and found the ways how the pro-Russian conspiracies...
“Russia did not… (and anyway, there is no proof)” In addition to these old classics, this week brought a new disinformation pearl. You know how people sometimes express themselves and only later realize that their...
The most recent example came earlier this month when the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs praised a book, published by an obscure Malaysian author, claiming that the “Jewish Antichrist Illuminati” were responsible both for...
A key concept in Nineteen Eighty-Four is “Newspeak.” A language designed by the novel’s IngSoc English Socialist Party to eliminate the people’s ability to express dissent. Orwell describes the principles of...
Just a few weeks later, on the 11 June, the “netizens,” as active participants of online communities are called, delivered. Another YouTube video presented “continuous revelations from the netizens,” cataloging a...
Last week’s cases take us on a frenzied ride through several topics that have been preoccupying the pro-Kremlin media over the last several weeks and months: coronavirus, protests, historical revisionism, MH17, Ukraine, NATO…...
With the US caught firmly in the global spotlight for the ongoing racial injustice protests sweeping the nation, pro-Kremlin media outlets are cynically using the opportunity to remind audiences about their favorite anti-American...
Organized protests “I am watching and I am happy …. The US is reaping what it sowed,” Russian Duma member Aleksei Zhuravlyov said on June 1 after the host of “60 Minutes”, a political talk-show aired on...
Secret labs For years, pro-Kremlin disinformation sources have been exploiting the false trope of secret Western-sponsored military laboratories “in Russia’s neighbourhood”. Of these, the most significant is the case...
In October 2022, a few weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles with...
