Week’s top Russian disinformation keywords: Genocide, Nazis, and the World Cup
This week, it was all about creating a smokescreen around one of the most important frontlines: Ukraine. As…
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In Skripal case, Kremlin following procedures it used for earlier political murders, Pastukhov says
At first glance, Vladimir Pastukhov says, Moscow’s approach to the Skripal scandal appears “irrational and inadequate, in fact,…
Five ways Russia is generating a conspiracy smokescreen around the Skripal poisoning
Tweets of the Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom, which deny Moscow’s responsibility for the former double agent…
Why are the Dutch demanding to shut down the EU’s only anti-propaganda service?
What is EUvsDisinfo? The East StratCom Task Force, or EUvsDisinfo, is an operational working group on strategic communications…
You can’t fight disinformation in the EU without naming its main source – Russia
1. This report, which was prepared by 39 experts over several months, does not bring much new knowledge…
Fake Western experts as a propaganda tool on Russian TV
Last week, Russia’s state-controlled NTV invited an American expert to comment on how the US had reacted to President Putin’s annual address.…
From objective reporting to myths and propaganda: The story of RIA Novosti
“Brothels for zoophiles have existed for a long time in Copenhagen. Local animal rights defenders, whose voices, however,…
Most people in the West make two fatal mistakes about Moscow ‘media,’ Yakovenko says
Most people in the West continue to make two “fatal” mistakes about the media in Putin’s Russia, Igor…
To the making of Russian fake news, there is no end
December is a month when news outlets routinely compile lists of the best or worst events of the…
A year of Russian propaganda: 1310 cases of Russian fakes debunked by EU watchdog
During the year we have witnessed plenty of spectacular claims from pro-Kremlin mouthpieces, such as the imminent threat of…
A guide to Russian propaganda. Part 4: Russian propaganda operates by law of war
Russian propaganda can be confusing. The fakes and manipulations are endless, often outrageous, and differ depending on their…
Breaking the rules: Crimea, disinformation, doping
On December 2, the news broke that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to sanction Russia’s participation in the 2018…
Revisionism, misinterpreted facts, video game image as evidence – this week’s pro-Kremlin disinformation tactics
This week we saw plenty of historical re-inventions in pro-Kremlin outlets. For example, the staggering number of victims of communist…
Seven things you should know about pro-Kremlin disinformation
1) Pro-Kremlin disinformation can look like just another news story Claims made in pro-Kremlin fake news stories are…
The main disinformation target of the last week: Ukraine’s proposal for the UN peacekeeping mission
The pro-Kremlin pulp mill The first target of the disinformation stream was Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s proposal for peacekeepers…
The propaganda schemes of TrumpPutinism
While analyzing all that is happening today in the United States, I've often noticed the striking similarity between…
To Russia with love: pivotal signals to Putin from Trump Jr meeting
This month’s explosive revelations documented in an email chain that Donald Trump Jr. took a meeting explicitly pitched…
Russia will continue efforts to destabilize Montenegro, expert says
We have written before about Russia's destructive influence growing in the Balkans and the Russian links of those…
Georgia’s lessons of peacebuilding now instructive for Ukrainians
I met Julia in 2016, when being a volunteer in the summer peace camp for Ukrainian kids who…
Whistleblower shares insights on workings of Russian state-controlled media
According to Mr Skorobutov, the management put pressure on him not to report an alleged attack by a…