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…
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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,…
Five identical technologies the Kremlin used to invade 1939 Poland and 2014 Ukraine
The Russian Federation is not only the legal successor of the USSR. It also inherited its expansionist politics,…
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…
Afghanistan and Lithuanian-Belarusian border crises: this week’s Russian disinformation targets
As the international community reckons with the fall of Kabul and Afghanistan itself into the Taliban’s hands, the…
The five biggest trifles of disinformation
“There is nothing as important as trifles." - Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”…
A year of disinformation in Belarus: Infographic
Disinformation is at the heart of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime. The illegitimate president of Belarus has been clinging to power based…
‘Russia may cut itself off completely from the West,’ Sergey Medvedev says
What is already taking place, the HSE scholar says, is the formation of “a medieval strata-based society” where…
Putin views Ukraine as “the anti-Russia” and the struggle against it as his mission, Shevchuk says
Vladimir Putin considers Ukraine not as a country and nation in its own right but as “'the anti-Russia,’…
Putin’s essay on Russia and Ukraine about far larger issues than that, Yavlinsky says
That it was a fundamentally imperialist challenge to the existence not just of Ukraine but of all Russia’s…
Hushing up is also lying: this week’s pro-Kremlin disinformation
Sometimes, what is not lied about is revealing. Seven years ago last week, a Russian military unit shut down Malaysian…
Putin’s fixation on Ukraine is demagogic, delusional and dangerous
One impression from the lengthy and stylistically incoherent text is that the author is deeply involved with the…
Under the guise of human rights and anti-globalization: how Russian influence agent Alexander Ionov works
Anti-globalization in the pay of Putin Alexander Ionov is an extremely multi-skilled political functionary. Since 2012, he has been…
Why the West should be paying close attention to Putin’s article
This thinly veiled ode to Pan-Slavism attempts to bind the fate of Russia and Ukraine together in a…
Why anti-Western conspiracies have inundated Ukraine
Authors of the recent report entitled "Why Conspiratorial Propaganda Works and What We Can Do About It" have…
Disinformation on the UN Charter as a tool of Russian imperialism
Other false claims concern “UN bias” and the UN as a “channel for Russophobia.” Still, the UN Charter…
This week’s pro-Kremlin disinformation: Ukraine, HMS Defender, See Breeze 2021
Summer steam While summer is upon us, accompanied by scorching heatwaves in several parts of the globe, including in…
A brief dictionary of Putin newspeak
As George Orwell warned more than half a century ago, a dictatorship that can enforce its definition of…
Russia to screen propaganda movie about Donbas worldwide. Its protagonist defected to Ukraine
Read also: Russian celebrity tank commandress defects to Ukraine, leaks details on Russian involvement in occupied Donbas Since…