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…
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The five biggest trifles of disinformation
“There is nothing as important as trifles." - Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”…
A year of disinformation in Belarus: Infographic
Disinformation is at the heart of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime. The illegitimate president of Belarus has been clinging to power based…
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…
Hushing up is also lying: this week’s pro-Kremlin disinformation
Sometimes, what is not lied about is revealing. Seven years ago last week, a Russian military unit shut down Malaysian…
Disinformation on the UN Charter as a tool of Russian imperialism
Other false claims concern “UN bias” and the UN as a “channel for Russophobia.” Still, the UN Charter…
This week’s pro-Kremlin disinformation: Ukraine, HMS Defender, See Breeze 2021
Summer steam While summer is upon us, accompanied by scorching heatwaves in several parts of the globe, including in…
Kremlin propaganda spreads divisions between Hungarians and Ukrainians by exploiting century-old Treaty of Trianon
The most effective disinformation efforts are tailored to the specific circumstances of particular countries and regions, exploiting existing…
Russian propaganda denigrating Belarusian dissident Pratasevich kidnapped by Lukashenka
The pro-Kremlin ecosystem has established its talking points on Lukashenka’s act of, in the words of the CEO…
Kremlin security boss dates back roots of “West’s Russophobia” to times of czar Ivan the Terrible
The database offers a plethora of colorful examples. Russian state radio Vesti FM suggests that Russia is the Jews…
Moscow speaking: the endless list of the Kremlin’s enemies
The said list, initiated by a Presidential decree, is meant to serve as a basis to prohibit certain countries…
“West’s attack on Russia”: Russian propaganda’s universal explanation of everything
But what looks like a complicated global situation, is, from the perspective of pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets, very simple:…
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…
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
Preventively shaped narratives In 2019, the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, a Kremlin-funded think tank, published the essay “Securing Information…
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…
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…
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…
Clinging to “Eternal Russia”: disinformation of the week
Inevitability and eternity Time is one of the most fascinating concepts the mind has come up with. How…