The Kremlin’s hybrid arsenal – an annotated checklist
There are so many aspects to Vladimir Putin’s “hybrid” war against the West that it is remarkably easy…
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EU disinformation watchdog has collected over 5000 disinformation cases since November 2015
But what’s behind those cases? What are the channels that emit disinformation narratives? And perhaps most importantly, how…
Kremlin media says the Kremlin does not interfere in Kremlin media
https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1099967061604945925 Before reminding ourselves of the way the Kremlin exercises its media control, let’s have a quick look…
Defensive disinformation: Moscow tries to frame the Salisbury attack as a comedy
Read also: Five ways Russia is generating a conspiracy smokescreen around the Skripal poisoning It seemed that everything that…
Disinformation Review: And the Oscar for fact-editing goes to…
And the Oscar for fact-editing goes to… Russian filmmakers were not successful at this year’s Oscar award ceremony.…
Russia-linked cyber attacks targeted 104 accounts of European think tanks
In total, 104 employee accounts in Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, and Serbia were targeted via spear phishing campaigns designed…
Kirillova: Sochi Games scandal revealed what Putin was like even before Crimea
Five years ago this weekend, the Sochi Olympiad ended with many Russians convinced that it showed Russia had…
Russian propaganda concocts “moral migration” from EU to Russia-occupied Crimea
A migrating story about moral migrants In order to support the claim about the alleged moral migrants, a…
Propaganda and disempowerment: media as a forum and as a tribune
The concept of the Forum is based on a horizontal exchange of ideas and views. In general, the media lends…
Five-year-long disinformation campaign didn’t make Crimea Russian
Polite and green men Heavily armed and stripped of their insignia, Russian soldiers quietly took control over Crimea’s…
Fake: Russian propaganda claims 1/4 of Ukrainians fled Ukraine because of pro-NATO policy
The pro-Kremlin sources cited a member of the Ukrainian parliament from the Opposition Platform for Life party, who…
Russian propaganda outlets want freedom of deception, believe EU leads witch hunt against them
Attacking the EU Ambassador In a clear attempt to discredit the EU, the Russian online outlet News Front…
“An Unfounded Foundation”: How Russian-run fake Western thinktanks look like
Why hide it? Why are the managers of the site trying to hide the fact that the site…
Major Russian media are under the centralized control of the Kremlin, investigation shows
“The control is total” “It is well known that the major Russian media, and especially television, are under…
Why authoritarians love the concept of the big conspiracy
The concept is usually cultivated among die-hard conspiracy theorists, and it occasionally appears in popular culture. We find…
Russian propagandist invented 6 West-staged attempted revolutions in Belarus
He explained that a network of “local collaborators” had actively participated in the attempts to provoke an uprising,…
How to get a 146% election result: Background of Kremlin propaganda classic case explained
Instructions from the Kremlin Back in 2011, the official outcome of the elections to Russia’s parliament, the State…
Facebook removed 364 propaganda pages and accounts of Russian origin
In short, Facebook has managed to identify 364 pages that claim to be independent news pages, but in…
Steps against online manipulation taken by 43 countries in two recent years
This is according to a study by the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, whose authors note that…
Ukraine remained under information fire from Russia in 2018
2018: Assessing the damage Read also: Ukraine-related narratives dominate Russian propaganda – disinformation watchdogs Out of the 212 reports appearing in…