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Six Real Sandworms and Fake Monkey Vaccines

The US indictment of “Sandworm”, Monkey Vaccine narratives and other repeating stories.

October 22, 2020

The Sign Language of Kremlin Divination

A good liar must be a good listener. Just as fortune-tellers, pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets gauge the audiences' hopes, prejudice and fears.

October 15, 2020

The Ghosts of the Kremlin’s Past

The profound sense of bitterness and resentment about the past is a core element of pro-Kremlin disinformation. It shapes how both history and present times are portrayed in media loyal to the Kremlin.

October 08, 2020

Disinformation Review: It’s a Russo-centric world

Be it Nagorno-Karabakh, MH17 or Belarus, everything is always against Russia.

October 01, 2020

Repetition and runaway selection

The disinformation ventilation of last week continues with some defensive pro-Kremlin strategies regarding the Navalny poisoning and protests in Belarus.

September 24, 2020

Fifty Ways to Kill Navalny

Pro-Kremlin pundits, most of them residing in the West, generously offer their expertise in "better ways to kill Navalny", weaponising sarcasm as a means of disinformation.

September 17, 2020

Salisbury all over again

There are numerous parallels to draw, and the pro-Kremlin media has scrambled in an attempt to draw as many as possible.

September 10, 2020

Disinformation Alignment

Belarusian and Russian state-controlled media have been tweaking and polishing their disinformation narratives, to align them to the same tune.

September 03, 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.

August 27, 2020

Disinformation Review

The Disinformation Review is EUvsDisinfo’s weekly newsletter. Issued every Thursday, it summarises the main pro-Kremlin disinformation trends observed across the disinfo cases collected throughout the week, and includes our latest news and analysis. It is available in English, Russian, German, French, Italian and Spanish.

Since its launch in November 2015, the Review has tracked the evolution of pro-Kremlin disinformation across a collection of thousands of cases in 18 languages. These cases, together with their disproofs, are contained in our public database – the only searchable, open-source repository of its kind. All issues of the Disinfo Review are also chronologically archived on this page.

While the Review is written specifically for a public audience, it is an important resource for experts and policy makers as well. Over the years, it has been referenced and quoted by political leaders, ministries, think tanks, and journalists throughout Europe and beyond.

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What makes a pro-Kremlin disinformation case?

The EUvsDisinfo database is dedicated to identifying and exposing disinformation narratives originating in pro-Kremlin media across the EU and Eastern Partnership countries. As of 2019, our monitoring capabilities also expose disinformation spread in the Western Balkans and the EU’s Southern neighbourhood.

In identifying disinformation cases, we focus on messages that provide a partial, distorted, or false depiction of fact-based reality, in line with established pro-Kremlin narratives. We use two criteria to determine whether a disinformation message is included in the database: 1) the message is verifiably false or misleading, according to the publicly available factual evidence and 2) the message originates in a Kremlin-funded media outlet or other information source that has clear links to the Russian Federation. Due to an EEAS policy change in 2018, we no longer include European outlets in the database. Read more about EUvsDisinfo’s terminology here.