Russian disinfo on social media: “Zelenskyy and western embassies fled Kyiv, US sabotaged Nord Stream”
Russian disinformation on social media proves that it can flexibly adapt to recent developments in the war. With…
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Meet the foreign journalists promoting Russia’s war propaganda
Journalism plays a key role in the war in Ukraine. On-site reporting of the devastation and causalities wrought…
How Russia ran a fake darknet “Javelin shop” for its “Ukrainian weapons black market” myth
The Russian “investigations” of Western weapons allegedly sold on the black market were based on screenshots of advertisements…
Taken out of context: CBS documentary claims on Ukrainian military aid going missing debunked
In August 2022, CBS released its documentary on military aid to Ukraine, filmed in April. The film…
Chinese state media spread Russian propaganda about Ukraine war
Russian disinformation narratives about “Ukrainian Nazism” and foreign influence are widely disseminated in China’s state-run media and through…
Only 53% of Kadyrov’s troops in Ukraine are ethnic Chechens
Ukraine’s intelligence service has established that only 53 percent of the men who are listed as volunteers from…
Russian propaganda in war: fake “fact-checkers,” far-right conspiracies, and distracted progressives
Since the onset of the February invasion, both the West and the Kremlin were then taken aback by…
Russian propagandists must be tried for inciting genocide and war – international lawyer
In May 2022, three committees of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada appealed to national parliaments in EU and NATO…
Russian propaganda is a war tool and must be ostracized – military expert
“Russia says it hit 17 Ukrainian facilities, and killed more than 200 troops.” “Russia says Ukraine shells its…
Putin triples spending on state media to promote his war in Ukraine
There is a classic Soviet joke which ever more frequently comes to mind given Vladimir Putin’s war in…
What is Azov Regiment? Honest answers to the most common questions
1. Is Azov regiment / brigade /battalion “neo-Nazi”? I’m used to answering questions about the Azov Regiment from…
‘They are defenders of Ukraine!’, open letter to CNN from Ukrainian civic leaders about Azov Regiment
We, Ukrainian politicians of different ideological views, industrialists, and businessmen, would like to address the CNN journalists and…
War in Ukraine intensified zombification of Russian TV viewers: longer programs, higher hysteria, no more opponents
Russian television which remains the main mobilizing force in that country nonetheless has changed fundamentally since Vladimir Putin…
Ukraine is the number one victim of Russian disinformation. Here is how it can fight back
Although it is Russia that has militarily occupied the Crimea, waged a deadly war in the Donbas, and…
Ukraine remains main target of pro-Kremlin disinformation in 2021: EU disinfo watchdog
Ukraine remains Russian propaganda’s top target Roughly one-third of all the recorded cases of pro-Kremlin disinformation collected by…
Entire spectrum of Russian propaganda increasingly aggressive in its messaging, Kirillova says
Russian propaganda can be classified into three broad categories, and until recently, only the last contained aggressive messages,…
Exploiting the crisis in Afghanistan: Russian and Chinese media draw parallels with Ukraine and Taiwan
Almost in unison, Russian and Chinese state-controlled media outlets continue to draw direct (and false) parallels between Afghanistan…
Trading socialism for chewing gum: Kremlin building military doctrine on self-deception
The Kremlin leadership has cultivated a special brand of “Dolchstosslegende” since the collapse of the Soviet Union 30…
Kremlin’s chronic case of Anglophobia: mental war and Anglo-Zionist empire among week’s propaganda narratives
Russian official documents on security policy usually identify the US as the Bad Guy in international relations. Recently,…
Ukraine, Crimean Platform, and the Witches’ Sabbath: this week’s Russian propaganda
The fact that seven years after the events unraveled on the Maidan square in Kyiv the Kremlin media…