February 15, 2024
The Kremlin’s global spinnings
More reports are shining light on the Kremlin global disinformation ecosystem, which does not shy away from putting human lives in danger for petty power plays.
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February 09, 2024
What He Said and What it Really Means – Vol. 5: “Interview/ history lecture”
Kremlin's propaganda spectacle, dubbed Putin's 'interview' with former Fox talking head Tucker Carlson, attempts once again to rewrite history and recycle all the favourite pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives
September 16, 2023
17th of September in Lukashenko’s Belarus: militarist, USSR-style rhetoric and the demonisation of Poland
The Belarusian people - schoolchildren in particular - are constantly fed pro-USSR narratives and anti-western propaganda, with Poland portrayed as a real demon to bolster the “Day of People’s Unity”
May 06, 2023
Historical revisionism: ‘Polish imperialism against Ukraine and Belarus’
Apart from Ukraine, Poland is among the Kremlin’s top scapegoats and objects of historical revisionism. In an upside-down mirror of Moscow’s own imperial ambitions actions, Poland has long been smeared as a warmonger and a ‘vassal’ of the US trying to annex parts of Ukraine and Belarus.
January 27, 2023
Anti-Semitism and pro-Kremlin disinformation
Anti-Semitic messages have deep roots in pro-Kremlin disinformation and are becoming mainstream following the invasion of Ukraine.
October 29, 2022
It is difficult to remember - but reading names on 29 and 30 October helps (Update Oct. 2022)
30 October is the Day of remembrance of victims of repression in Russia, yet it is getting more dangerous to mark and remember. Smear campaigns, police brutality and court cases against opposition and civil society create new waves of fear in Russia
September 20, 2022
KEY NARRATIVES IN PRO-KREMLIN DISINFORMATION
A defining feature of pro-Kremlin disinformation is its repetitiveness. Pro-Kremlin outlets stick to a set of recurring narratives.
September 20, 2022
KEY NARRATIVES IN PRO-KREMLIN DISINFORMATION: “NAZIS”
“Nazi” is both a label and a narrative, and unlike any other, it summarizes the mythology that sustains the Kremlin’s regime in a single word.
August 25, 2022
The Kremlin Finds a New Rallying Cry for its War Against Ukraine
Pro-Kremlin disinformation channels are using the assassination of Darya Dugina to raise the stakes of the invasion in the eyes of domestic audiences. The goal: to paint a picture where Russia is facing a war of annihilation, and the only way to survive is to destroy Ukraine.
October 29, 2021
It is difficult to remember - but reading names on 29 October helps
The paradox of remembrance in Russia: all families have felt the repression and countless ordinary citizens perished or were tortured, yet Stalin’s popularity is steadily growing today, especially among young Russians. This is the result of a campaign featuring both disinformation, historical revisionism and a crackdown on NGOs such as Memorial, which stand up against the trend.
October 01, 2021
Lukashenka’s Belarus celebrates the Soviet attack on Poland
Manipulation and disinformation have become fundaments of Lukashenka’s regime in Belarus. After manipulating the present, Lukashenka is now set to manipulate the past: the Soviet attack on Poland is today celebrated as the unification of Belarus.
September 23, 2021
“US Provoking Hunger Riots in Europe”
The looming hunger in Europe; the irreproachable elections in Russia; the Israeli trail in 9/11 and the art of regurgitating old lies on Soviet Russia’s part in the partitioning of Poland in 1939: this and much more in this week’s Disinformation Review.
February 19, 2021
Diplomatic Demagoguery – Fact-Checking Russian Diplomacy
Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, gave an interview to the Russian State TV Host Vladimir Solovyov on 12 February 2021. Here is a collection of some of the unfounded and misleading claims that were aired in the interview.
December 29, 2020
Figures of the year: from 16 to 117 million
From inauthentic coordinated behaviour and major corporations supporting disinformation, to people believing Covid-19 is man-made - 2020 had it all.
August 27, 2020
Freedom as an Imperialist Scheme
The pro-Kremlin media is consumed by the fear of freethinking and independent people, so it is busy reducing them to unwitting pawns played by powerful puppet-masters. Blunt force and lies can subdue the protests, but it can never prevail.
- Timeline of crackdown on dissent and freedom of expression in Russia (March 2023 - February 2024)
- Years of Repressions against Journalists and Activists in Russia
- Timeline - 100 Days of War against Ukraine
- Seven things you need to know about RT and Sputnik
- Pro-Kremlin disinfo about bioweapons and biolabs
- Crimea's illegal annexation - Key pro-Kremlin disinfo narratives
- When words kill - Hate speech in the Kremlin speak
- Disinformation about Bucha
- What Putin says - What he really means
- Fake referendums organised by Russia
- Timeline - Russian aggression and disinformation in Ukraine
- Pro-Kremlin disinformation targeting Moldova
- Russian Disinformation about Georgia
- Pro-Kremlin disinformation about the protests in Georgia
- Conspiracy theories about Covid-19 and vaccines
- Timeline - Pro-Kremlin disinfo examples about Coronavirus
- Disinformation on protests and democracy in Belarus
- Top disinformation narratives about Belarus
