News and Analysis

Disinformation Review

April 18, 2024

Peace and sudden memory improvement

The Kremlin’s disinformation outlets seek to discredit Ukraine’s legitimate attempts to secure a just and sustainable peace, muddying the waters with outdated proposals and feigning a genuine interest in negotiations. Meanwhile, at home, conspiracy theories about the Crocus City Hall still abound.

News and Analysis

April 08, 2024

The wrong, the wicked, and the wacky - Claims about the EU Mission in Armenia

For over a year, the civilian EU Mission in Armenia has been the target of disinformation coming from various sources and actors. In this article, we examine Moscow’s playbook to discredit the mission, its staff and its objectives to sour EU-Armenia relations.

News and Analysis

April 02, 2024

Check for scapegoats: International Fact-Checking Day and the Crocus City attacks

Fact-checking is an essential part of debunking propaganda, disinformation and manipulation, such as “Kyiv is behind the Moscow’s Crocus City Hall attacks”. Actions on the ground suggest otherwise.

Disinformation Review

March 28, 2024

Hinterland on fire

The Kremlin’s disinformation is shifting from ridiculing the EU to spreading baseless accusations and conspiracy theories about the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack in Moscow, using this tragic incident to further vilify Ukraine and divert attention from potentially mounting domestic turmoil.

News and Analysis

March 27, 2024

The Kremlin’s call for peace is still masking a bloody empire

We examine the major disinfo narratives claiming that Russia wants peace. In fact, war has become an almost desired state of affairs for Putin.

Belarus

March 25, 2024

25 March Belarus Freedom Day amid repression

Belarus #FreedomDay

News and Analysis

March 15, 2024

Black Days continued (vol.5): media repression in Russia

Censorship, conveyor-belt sentencing, gangster attacks, economic suffocation and waterfalls of disinfo flooding public discourse: revanchist, militant nationalism is drowning the Russian information space.

News and Analysis

March 08, 2024

Women fighting back at Putin and Lukashenka

International Women’s Day: Independent female politicians and activists are particularly feared and smeared by the Kremlin and its fellows.

News and Analysis

March 07, 2024

The Kremlin blows hot air to spite the freezing winter in Russia

Russian state-controlled and other pro-Kremlin outlets continued to push hackneyed disinformation tropes about European energy problems despite mounting energy woes in Russia.

News and Analysis

March 01, 2024

What He Said and What it Really Means – Vol. 6: Putin Forever

Putin’s address to the Federal Assembly embraced war as ideology, promised money to everyone, lasted for a record 126 minutes and was interrupted with applause 116 times.