Read More 7 minute read Crimea Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 9 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 6 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 7 minute read Hybrid War “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.… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 5 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 5 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 8 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 4 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 4 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 8 minute read Hybrid War 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)… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 6 minute read Hybrid War “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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 4 minute read Hybrid War “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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 5 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 4 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 6 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 4 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 9 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 5 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 5 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 4 minute read Hybrid War 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… byEU East StratCom Task Force