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News and Analysis

January 26, 2017

COMMENTARY: Means, goals and consequences of the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign

The EU’s East StratCom Task Force was set up by EU High Representative Federica Mogherini in 2015, in response to a request from all 28 EU Heads of Government to “address Russia’s ongoing disinformation campaigns”. It is a team of eleven communications and Russian language experts, who also seek to…

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.

News and Analysis

May 23, 2018

RIA’s Freudian Headline Writing

Sometimes a misleading headline communicates something the author cannot provide evidence for but still desires to say.

News and Analysis

February 19, 2024

Hate speech and calls for genocide in Putin’s Russia

Hate speech and de-humanisation against Ukraine have become the norm in pro-Kremlin lingo. Open calls for genocide blend in, setting the scene for war crimes. Most Russians accept the policy.

Figure of the Week

March 05, 2019

Figure of the Week: 138

Following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the UK, pro-Kremlin media went into overdrive and churned out an impressive amount of disinformation.

News and Analysis

February 03, 2017

President Trump's first days in the Russian media

“Trump is Russia’s man!” This claim has become common enough in both Russian and international media for President Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, to comment on it when he appeared on a Saturday night talk show on the state TV channel Rossiya-1. Mr. Peskov seemed to enjoy discussing…

Disinformation Review

February 08, 2024

Moscow’s many stories about EU support to Ukraine

The Kremlin is stepping up its campaign to split EU societies and undermine morale in Ukraine.

News and Analysis

May 30, 2018

Sarcasm and Mistranslation: The Two Last Bastions of Disinformation

When the Kremlin's usual disinformation smokescreens don't work anymore, the self-defence is to ridicule the sources of criticism.

News and Analysis

January 25, 2017

A fake fake news checker

A case of double bluff – this was the conclusion Swedish internet users reached after a Swedish website presenting itself as the next in a series of websites devoted to checking facts and challenging disinformation turned out to be doing the contrary of what it claimed – not checking but…

News and Analysis

October 07, 2016

This is not the time for journalism

An extensive leak of emails shows how pro-Russian separatists receives instructions from Kremlin advisers on how to manage the media coverage of events.