Soviet Chornobyl-times instinct to lie still omnipresent in Russian propaganda
While Russia has declared a withdrawal from its vast military presence at Ukraine’s borders, Ukraine continues to dominate the flow…
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Advisor to Russian Defense Minister warns of ‘mental war’: who is waging it and against whom?
A particularly telling point made by the Russian military advisor was that, “If in classical wars the goal…
“Dropping rumor bombs in Ukraine”: Russia’s building up disinformation around its military build-up
Preventively shaped narratives In 2019, the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, a Kremlin-funded think tank, published the essay “Securing Information…
Donbas: Russia creating fakes on the ground
In early February 2021, Margarita Simonyan, head of the Russian disinformation outlet RT.com, called upon the Russian leadership to…
Disinformation build-up: pro-Kremlin media reinvigorate their focus on Ukraine
Read more on the troop buildup: Four Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donbas as Russia continues troop buildup and…
Sentenced to 24 years by Russian propaganda: report exposes Kremlin disinformation in Markiv case
Information has become central to the Ukraine crisis, with some journalists and experts referring to an information war…
Kremlin propaganda’s conspiracies claim that Ukrainian, Lithuanian leaders faked their vaccinations
Sputnik’s claims were immediately debunked by Lithuanian journalists, and the case was added to the EUvsDisinfo database. Ms. Grybauskaitė received…
The quiet front: the battle of identities in occupied Crimea and Donbas
History weaponized Just as heavily armored “little green men” invaded and occupied Crimea, and Russian tanks entered eastern…
Russia starts a new wave of disinformation on sanctions
The disinformation related to EU sanctions is not a new phenomenon. There are 420 cases on sanctions in…
Clinging to “Eternal Russia”: disinformation of the week
Inevitability and eternity Time is one of the most fascinating concepts the mind has come up with. How…
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…
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…
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…
“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.…
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…
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…
The future of the pro-Russian project in Ukraine after the ban of Putin pal’s TV channels
Despite the overall positive impact and the enthusiasm of some Ukrainian social networks, Ukraine's recent sanctioning of three…
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…
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…
No, Putin’s compadre shouldn’t be allowed to run propagandist TV in Ukraine
On 2 February 2021, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy enabled the decision of the National Security and Defense Council…