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Hybrid warfare
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“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…
Advisor to Russian Defense Minister warns of ‘mental war’: who is waging it and against whom?
A particularly telling point made by the Russian military advisor was that, “If in classical wars the goal…
“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…
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…
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…
Fake it until you break it: pro-Kremlin disinformation’s six deception tricks
Dr. Barton Whaley, a former expert of military-political deception, created a well-known typology of perception. The underlying assumption: it…
Pro-Kremlin media engaged in Sputnik V vaccine’s offensive marketing in Eastern Partnership countries
Read also: Secret labs and George Soros: Kremlin’s COVID-19 disinformation in the EU Eastern Partnership countries (June 2020)…
“Carthage must be destroyed”: case study on Kremlin’s attack on democracy
For more than a decade pro-Kremlin propaganda outlets have sought to promote in Europe new ideologies hostile to…