Pro-Kremlin media scaremongering about “threatened sovereignty” this week: disinformation review
COVID-19 continues to be a popular topic for the producers of disinformation: This week EU vs Disinfo documented…
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‘Friendship of the peoples’ – one of many Soviet myths waiting to be debunked, Mirovich says
Myths about the Soviet past continue to circulate and even to grow, Maxim Mirovich says; but they are…
Disinforming aftermath of curbing disinformation: Russian propaganda targets YouTube’s action against RT
Last week, YouTube deleted RT’s German-language channels over violations of the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy and its terms of service.…
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,…
Russian propaganda’s main message to Ukraine: you’re under “external governance” – study
The report's authors conclude that the informational influence of Russia on Ukrainian society remains "relevant and systemic," "the…
Black is white, freedom is slavery, and Stalin’s invasion of Poland was ‘a liberation campaign,’ Russian Foreign Ministry says
In Putin’s increasingly Orwellian approach to the world, the Russian Foreign Ministry on the anniversary of the introduction…
From hybrid war to buying weapons: Belarus as week’s primary target of Russian propaganda
Disinformation cases collected this week consider, among others, Belarus. They include rather uneasy narratives such as hybrid war facing the…
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,…
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…