Intimidation as a propaganda tool in the Nordic countries
According to a poll shared by Radio Free Europe, Russia enjoys significantly less popularity in the Nordic countries…
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How Russian TV-channels promote pro-Kremlin narratives in talk shows
At a first glance, the talk show format on pro-Kremlin TV can seem to provide audiences access to…
Inside RT and Sputnik: What is it like to work for Kremlin’s propaganda media?
As awareness about the issue of disinformation grows globally, those working for RT and Sputnik find themselves under…
Russian media forge more papers to blame Ukraine of downing MH17, make bad grammar mistakes
More fake documents On 22 May, the Russian online newspaper Sovershenno Sekretno ("Top Secret") published its analysis of allegedly top…
Zurab Kodalashvili: FSB surveils Russian journalists in the West, just like in Soviet times
Zurab Kodalashvili is a Georgian-born, UK-based media professional. He used to be the Executive Director at the First Caucasus…
Putin’s anti-Ukrainian propaganda playing role state anti-Semitism did in Soviet times, Ikhlov says
Vladimir Putin’s “rabid” anti-Ukrainian propaganda resembles and is intended to have a similar outcome to Soviet state anti-Semitism,…
Putting Kyiv’s decision on Russian social media in context
Moscow and Western officials and commentators have sharply criticized Kyiv’s decision to block access to Russian social media,…
Containment of Putin’s Russia in today’s globalized world won’t be easy or even enough
Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putin’s Russia and some are even celebrating that the…
Inside the Kremlin’s media machine
How does the world look from inside a pro-Kremlin disinformation outlet? We rarely get the opportunity to hear…
How Kremlin propaganda made the EU an enemy in the eyes of Russia
The author, Kristina Potapova, explains that pro-Kremlin disinformation creates feelings of superiority among Russians, which in turn draws…
Volodymyr Vyatrovych: Hopefully Ukraine will soon commemorate Victory Day on May 8
We don’t want to eliminate May 9; it will always be a day of remembrance and a moment…
Even oppressed non-Russians made important contributions to war effort in WW2
A casual consumer of Russian propaganda outlets in advance of Moscow’s commemoration of Victory Day this year could…
Nazi east, Nazi west, Nazi over the cuckoo’s nest
Regular readers of the Disinformation Review already know that the accusation of Nazism is one of the favourite…
The many ways terror serves the regime in Putin’s Russia
Putin’s leadership exploits the fear of Russians caused by terror attacks to maintain their self-perception as a victimized…
Moscow’s false story about Alaska infuriates residents of Russian North
A story Moscow media outlets put out yesterday claimed that an advisor to the governor of the US…
Kremlin has lost control of the future, but also the past
Russia, it is sometime said, is a country with an unpredictable past; but Russian governments have worked hard…
European security experts call upon EU to triple defense against Russian propaganda
A number of European security experts have signed an open letter addressed to EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs…
Post-truth world is not something new but a return to the past, Portnikov says
Many people believe that the “post-truth” period the world is entering now is something new, but in fact,…
For Belarus, Moscow reanimates themes used to justify aggression in Ukraine
Russian propaganda outlets are employing exactly the same thematics they did before Moscow intervened in Ukraine, insisting that…
Russian propaganda exploits German feeling guilt for attacking USSR – Yuriy Durkot
Since Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, Ukrainian journalist, publicist and translator Yuriy Durkot has been developing Ukrainian-German…