"Russia has the best prostitutes in the world”, says President Putin. Michelle Obama “looked like [Melania Trump's] housekeeper” at President Trump's inauguration ceremony, according to well-known TV host Dmitry Kiselev. Opponents of the plan to transfer St....

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...

Will Russia attempt to isolate itself from the world wide web and replace it by a domestic internet? Controversial discussions between two Russian ministries indicate that the option is at least on the table. As we underlined in December, Russia's new “Information...

The degree of media freedom in Russia varies from the large state TV stations that relay the government's messages and narratives to smaller newspapers, radio stations and online media that do make space for criticism, but find themselves under economic, political and...

In the Soviet Union, many citizens, perhaps even a majority, were able to "read between the lines" and take the official political rhetoric, the so-called ofitsioz, with a pinch of salt. The official state propaganda's success was limited, even if only a minority...

Sunday night is the traditional big propaganda night on Rossiya-1 TV and, as we reported last week, the special kind of infotainment provided by this state channel is in growing demand. This Sunday night opened with “chief propagandist”, EU-sanctioned Dmitry Kiselev,...

Sputnik, the Russian government-owned news service, informed us last week that a group of Russian engineers and space enthusiasts aim to develop and launch a satellite to check whether the celebrated moon landing actually took place. The plan is to send a...

This last week we have seen a near perfect example of how disinformation can spread. The story about NATO's reenforcement in Europe has an element of truth mixed up with false information, all to fit into the often repeated pro-Kremlin narrative that NATO is the...

The most popular TV channel in Latvia – TV3 (http://skaties.lv/tv3/) – has started 2017 with a new Sunday evening show to uncover disinformation. This is the first time that a regular TV show about disinformation is offered in a prime time TV slot. The first episode...