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March 18, 2022

Eight Years On, War in Ukraine Brings Back Painful Memories of Crimea’s Invasion

Eight years ago on 18 March, Russia illegally annexed Crimea from Ukraine. The scars of the annexation are still raw in Ukraine, and for many Ukrainians, the Russian leadership’s ruthless war against their country brings back painful memories of the 2014 takeover of Crimea.

News and Analysis

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”

Belarus

December 27, 2021

Laughs and tragedy: Absurd repression in Belarus

Despite a proclaimed victory over a “Western-instigated colour revolution”, Lukashenka’s Belarus regime continues large-scale repressions. The regime fears the popular voice and the prison sentence of 18-years recently handed to opposition leader Siarhei Tsikhanouski illustrate this. In other cases it borders tragicomedy or paranoia.

News and Analysis

April 19, 2022

Pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets referenced by hundreds of Wikipedia articles

Though by far the biggest of its kind, far too little is known about Wikipedia’s vulnerability to information manipulation.

News and Analysis

March 25, 2023

25 March, International Day of Solidarity with Belarus, marked with more repression

More trials and political prisoners. More labelling of ‘extremists’, more repentance videos. Lukashenka has promised the ‘strictest clean-up’ of ‘traitors’ and authorities follow suit against leading voices.

Belarus

August 08, 2023

Manipulate the infosphere, repress the people, and build a cult to Lukashenka

Three years after the August 2020 stolen presidential elections in Belarus, state propaganda boasts about welcoming exiled Belarusians back amid continued repression and new ways of coercion.

News and Analysis

January 20, 2020

“They are Convinced that Russia Should Follow Guerrilla Tactics”

Disinformation as a swarm: Exclusive interview with Alexander Morozov, Russian journalist and researcher with the Boris Nemtsov Academic Center in Prague.

News and Analysis

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.