What did not happen in 2019: Russia’s top absurd fakes of the year
The busiest man on the planet Based on the “reporting” of the pro-Kremlin media, financier George Soros must…
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Russian disinformation review: Circling the Earth
Based on our research, we were able to come up with close to 30 countries where Sputnik has…
A catalog of the Kremlin’s worst fears: This week’s Disinfo Review
Accepting the truth can be scary for anyone, but in the case of pro-Kremlin disinformation, one observes a…
EU vs Disinfo registered 7,000 pro-Kremlin disinformation cases, 40% of them target Ukraine
Students at Lviv University who use Russian social networks will not pass their exams – that was the…
Duma votes to require those preparing and distributing foreign news in Russia to have Moscow’s permission
The Duma on first reading has voted to approve amendments to the administrative code that would impose fines…
Fight against disinformation is also a fight for independent media, Novaya Gazeta case shows
Novaya Gazeta vs. the trolls Two weeks ago, we described how the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta was targeted…
Inside occupied Crimea’s crackdown on independent journalism
Mykola Semena was accused by the Russian authorities of issuing public calls to violate Russia’s territorial integrity. In…
A man of one heroic act. Remembering the death of Russian opposition journalist Shchetinin in Ukraine
One year ago, the Russian opposition journalist Alexander Shchetinin was found dead with a gunshot wound in Kyiv.…
Trump’s Orwellian “rigged” campaign is straight out of Putin’s propaganda playbook
The US 2016 presidential campaign is nothing short of Orwellian. A billionaire real estate mogul who’s lived the…
Media in Russian-occupied Donbas increasingly like those of North Korea, study finds
Ukrainians living in the Russian-occupied Donbas and those living in the rest of Ukraine exist in “two parallel…
“DNR’s” propaganda apparatus exposed. Part 2: How “DNR” censored Ukraine’s leading TV channels
An email dump of a “DNR Ministry of information” employee, Tatyana Egorova, reveals that Ukrainian leading TV channels collaborated with the…
Ukrainians parroting Moscow’s line more dangerous than Russians who do, Portnikov says
The Kremlin understands that most Ukrainians distrust Russian media outlets and so has made a major effort to…
“DNR’s” propaganda apparatus exposed. Part 1: “Russophobe, get him out of Donetsk”
An email dump of a "DNR Ministry of information" employee reveals how the self-proclaimed Russian-backed statelet in eastern…
Kremlin propaganda successfully exploiting five American vulnerabilities, Kirillova says
Lenin said that Marxism was powerful because it was true; his successors in the Kremlin have been as…
Lackluster journalism on Russo-Ukrainian war from PBS and Pulitzer Center
On July 5, the PBS NewsHour, the nation's longest running nightly news broadcast, aired a report prepared by…
Putin using Western values to destroy the West, Moscow analyst says
Moscow commentator Andrey Malgin delivers a warning that no one should ignore: Vladimir Putin, he argues, “will use…
Pocket Vocabulary of Kremlin-speak
Use this short vocabulary to translate the language the Kremlin uses in its broadcasts into human language: Sacral —…
Ringing silence: US sending the wrong signal to peoples of Russia
At a time when Vladimir Putin is suppressing media freedom across his country and Russianizing the media space…
Meet the kids running a Donbas town’s only local media outlet
Almost 2 years have past since the tragic events in the town when it was under control of…
Lies, corruption, war, – Russians simply don’t care
Dmitriy Florin took part in Russia’s operations in Chechnya, served in Russian militia’s special squad OMON, and worked…