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News and Analysis

March 15, 2024

Black Days continued (vol.5): media repression in Russia

Censorship, conveyor-belt sentencing, gangster attacks, economic suffocation and waterfalls of disinfo flooding public discourse: revanchist, militant nationalism is drowning the Russian information space.

News and Analysis

March 01, 2024

What He Said and What it Really Means – Vol. 6: Putin Forever

Putin’s address to the Federal Assembly embraced war as ideology, promised money to everyone, lasted for a record 126 minutes and was interrupted with applause 116 times.

News and Analysis

November 18, 2021

A Dictator in Panic Forces Belarus to Live in Fear

An illegitimate president in panic forces the Belarusian people to live in fear. Barys Haretski, vice president of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, currently in exile in Ukraine, talks about the state of public discourse and the future of independent voices in Belarus.

News and Analysis

March 17, 2022

Defectors, Defiance and Disinformation

Several journalists have publicly declared they are not taking part in the Kremlin’s disinformation machine and left their jobs.

News and Analysis

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

News and Analysis

February 04, 2021

“Navalny Cubs and Mommy’s Revolutionaries”

Alexei Navalny and the protests against his detention are at the centre of this week’s pro-Kremlin disinformation attempts. A very clear pattern is visible: belittle the protests and defame Navalny.

News and Analysis

January 29, 2024

Time to take a step forward from analysis to a collective response

The latest EEAS report on FIMI threats reveals how foreign powers are systematically undermining democracies. This is not just an attack on facts, but a strategic thrust against our institutions and societal fabric, exploiting everything from elections to global crises and influential figures.

News and Analysis

February 14, 2024

Belarus: Militarisation of minors

Militarisation of minors in Belarus has been part of the regime’s response to the 2020-2021 protests. In parallel with large-scale repression, authorities introduced a broad set of measures to ideologically indoctrinate and militarise minors as part of schooling.

Disinformation Review

November 21, 2019

Fighting the Disinformation Virus: Georgia Edition

This week the Disinformation Review comes to you straight from Georgia, the land of ancient traditions, home of the “first Europeans”, site of unique modern architecture and one of the favourite targets of the pro-Kremlin disinformation.

News and Analysis

April 17, 2018

Figure of the Week: 130,500

A trove of hacked emails appears to show that Moscow planned to fund a dirty-tricks campaign aimed at sowing division and spreading disinformation in Ukraine, just months after Russia invaded the country.