December 14, 2017
Weaponising the Olympics
The Winter Olympics ban “is a war against Russia”, we learned, as well as that “the Olympics have never been about sport, but war”.
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April 30, 2020
Flattening the Curve
The COVID-19 outbreak is still dominating in this week's caseload of pro-Kremlin disinformation, but some signs are showing that the topic is starting to become uncomfortable for the disinformation networks.
March 09, 2020
Occupy the Information Space!
Russian military theorists emphasise the need to produce pre-emptively shaped narratives to get an advantage in handling important communication challenges. This approach is highly visible in the pro-Kremlin media's disinformation efforts on the eve of the MH17 trial in the Netherlands.
February 07, 2018
Figure of the Week: 0
Kyiv doesn't have a single Russian-language school: this recent "news" is based entirely on false claims and a mysterious Excel sheet.
July 15, 2016
Anniversary: "The crucified boy" turns two
This week, two years has passed since the most infamous fake story of the Donbas conflict, known as "the crucified boy", was broadcast by Kremlin-controlled TV.
June 12, 2018
Austrian TV Confronts Putin with the Issue of Disinformation
The interview is a unique opportunity to understand the thinking with regards to disinformation on Russia's highest political level.
June 12, 2017
How disinformation made Russia fall out of love with Germany
Newly published polling from Russia’s leading independent pollster Levada places Germany in the top three countries that Russians see as most hostile, replacing Turkey as the third country, and after the U.S. and Ukraine. About a quarter of the respondents now see Germany as hostile, so the…
June 13, 2018
The Burrito Theft Theory
What happens when you transfer Russian disinformation tactics from the world of geopolitics to an everyday life conflict between two roommates?
July 04, 2019
Russophobia, Dependence, and the Belarusian Gay-Opposition
Last week, the pro-Kremlin media claimed that Russophobia is Lithuania's main export. In reality, it's mineral fuels and machinery. But this case offers a great opportunity to ask, what's the main "export" of the pro-Kremlin media?
October 19, 2020
From English into Russian into Czech: Re-translation as a Manipulative Tool
Russian state media have a credibility problem, and they know it - and they have found a crafty solution to it.