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October 21, 2016

"The truth is dissolved": Under cover in RT's newsroom

German journalist Martin Schlak posed as an intern to gain access to the German branch of the TV station RT funded by the Russian authorities.

News and Analysis

November 07, 2017

Figure of the Week: $191 Million

New revelations show that Russia's state-controlled VTB bank funded a $191-million investment in Twitter.

News and Analysis

January 14, 2019

What’s Wrong With RT?

The UK's media regulator highlights fundamental differences between RT and the kind of journalism normally expected from a public service broadcaster.

News and Analysis

October 01, 2021

Lukashenka’s Belarus celebrates the Soviet attack on Poland

Manipulation and disinformation have become fundaments of Lukashenka’s regime in Belarus. After manipulating the present, Lukashenka is now set to manipulate the past: the Soviet attack on Poland is today celebrated as the unification of Belarus.

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.

News and Analysis

November 12, 2021

Sputnik Srbija Piggy-Backing on Local Outlets

Russian state-funded outlets such as Sputnik Srbija have a rather weak position on the media market of the Western Balkans, but they successfully spread pro-Kremlin narratives through local media. This is one of the key findings of a recent study on the information environment in the Western Balkans.

News and Analysis

April 08, 2024

The wrong, the wicked, and the wacky - Claims about the EU Mission in Armenia

For over a year, the civilian EU Mission in Armenia has been the target of disinformation coming from various sources and actors. In this article, we examine Moscow’s playbook to discredit the mission, its staff and its objectives to sour EU-Armenia relations.

Guest content

March 16, 2024

How invading Russian forces destroyed media in Ukraine’s occupied territories and what they built instead

In the two years of their occupation, Russian invaders have either destroyed or 'Russified’ all Ukrainian media outlets operating in the temporarily occupied regions of Ukraine, affecting at least 300 editorial offices in the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Luhansk regions.

Disinformation Review

April 09, 2020

Repeating A Lie Does Not Make It True

One of the core elements of disinformation is persistence. Sticking to a few comfortable tropes makes lying easier.

News and Analysis

May 19, 2021

Pouring Derision upon Eurovision

Nationalist Russian website Tsargrad goes full Don Quixote on the Eurovision Song Contests. The contest is, according to the outlet, an instrument for LGBT propaganda, feminism and tolerance - some of the worst things the Tsargrad can imagine.