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…
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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…
“Neo-liberalism”: the Kremlin’s new favorite strawman
The rhetorical means of straw men is the Kremlin’s go-to trick in any polemical debate. A straw man is the…
30 years of “color revolutions”: historical revisionism of Russian propaganda
An otherwise mediocre mouthpiece of state-sponsored pro-Kremlin disinformation, “BaltNews” did something remarkable last November. In just one headline…
A happy New Year and some sad old tropes: Russian propaganda of first days of 2021
Read also: Over 3000 Russian propaganda cases registered by EU disinformation watchdog in 2020 The War on Sputnik…
Russian disinformation in 2020: top embarrassing moments
Read also: Ten embarrassing moments in Russian disinformation of 2019 1. A polite poisoner The Navalny case is, of…
Disinformation figures of the year 2020: from 16 to 117 million
A recurring theme in EU vs Disinfo’s Figure of the Week section this year was Facebook taking down accounts…
Ukraine looks for applicable lessons in latest Karabakh War
Originally published by Jamestown.org on November 9, 2020 From the earliest days of war in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas…
Over 3000 Russian propaganda cases registered by EU disinformation watchdog in 2020
2020 is finally almost over. For many, this has been a challenging year, which brought not only a global pandemic…
Subtle art of information manipulation: misleading headlines as Russian propaganda tool
[boxright] From English into Russian into Czech: re-translation as a Russian propaganda’s manipulation tool [/boxright] A Moldova-based fact-checking…
What did not happen in 2020: Russian propaganda top absurdities of the year
True to tradition, we bring our what-did-not-happen-this-year list. It demonstrates the lavish collection of literally unbelievable events and…
Top pro-Kremlin fakes about Christmas 2020
And it is the season for Christmas Disinformation Cases! All the cozy little lies about Europe, canceling Christmas, repeated…
From information laundering to influence: Russia’s footprints in Germany
Information laundering is a process within an information influence campaign. Through the process of ‘laundering’ hostile actors try…
Russia’s self-victimization as propaganda tool for evading responsibility: disinformation review
A clear example of this is the poisoning of the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny. Pro-Kremlin media writes…
From information laundering to influence activities: Russia’s footprints in Nordic-Baltic countries
It begins with an explanation of how narratives can be understood in the context of strategic communication, followed…
Volodymyr Horbulin: Seven steps to defeat Russia in the wars of the future
Step 1. Ukraine’s military and political leadership must realize that modern warfare is very different from the war…
Ukraine is back in the focus of pro-Kremlin media: disinformation review
A chapter in the recent study by NATO StratCom COE lists and compares narratives that were pushed by the…