January 31, 2018
"The Death of Stalin" as European information warfare
Is "The Death of Stalin" in fact an information attack on Russia? Is "Paddington 2"?
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July 01, 2016
Return to Stalinism?
New anti-terrorist and anti-extremist laws are described as “some of the most repressive laws in post-Soviet history”.
January 20, 2021
Waiting for the Advent of the Fifth Stalin
“Russian Superiority” is a key narrative in pro-Kremlin disinformation. Russia has a mission to the world. A nationalist writer even promises a saviour from Russia: a fifth Stalin.
July 07, 2022
Kremlin’s Never-ending Thirst for Death and Devastation
Pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets continue to call immense human suffering liberation and the ruins temporarily fallen into Russian hands tokens of glorious victory.
September 27, 2017
Beware – This Film Was Made by the West to Destabilise Russia!
Most recently, we learned that comedy movies can be a "planned provocation" and part of a western plot to destabilise Russia. Such are the words from the Russian authorities about Armando Iannucci's new film, The Death of Stalin.
February 22, 2024
Pyrrhic victories and crickets chirping in the graveyard
From celebrating gaining a few dozen square kilometers of scorched earth in Avdiivka as a major victory for Putin to keeping mum about the circumstances of Alexei Navalny’s death, it’s been a busy week for the Kremlin’s disinformation mouthpieces
June 14, 2021
Turning a Tragedy into a Weapon
The pro-Kremlin media is exploiting a tragedy, to justify aggression against Ukraine. Facts and lies on the tragic death of a four-year-old boy in Donbas.
March 03, 2022
Putin’s imperial delusions unleash hell on earth in Ukraine and ever-increasing oppression back home
Instead of glory and the rebirth of an empire, Putin’s delusions have brought only ever-increasing oppression, devastated living conditions, and death to ordinary Russian citizens.
October 10, 2018
Going Off Script, RT Style
"I would give my life for the return of Stalin without hesitation,” Sameera Khan, a correspondent with RT, wrote on her Twitter.
December 04, 2018
Figure of the Week: 12
It's been described as a "death factory" where the United States is secretly testing biological weapons to attack Russia. Meet Georgia's Lugar laboratory, a top target of pro-Kremlin disinformation.
November 28, 2023
The deep winter freeze that wasn’t
The Kremlin’s disinformation narratives about energy issues targeting Europe melted away when contrary to their gloomy predictions Europe did not freeze to death last winter.
April 14, 2022
Trolling for a Victory Steeped in Blood and Hunger
Russia's attempts to distract from war crimes in Bucha, Kramatorsk and elsewhere in Ukraine go hand in hand with a coordinated trolling campaign to fuel the Kremlin's disinformation cycle of death and deceit.
April 27, 2021
Figure of the Week: 77
77 per cent of the Russians fear occasionally or permanently arbitrariness of the authorities. According to a survey by the independent Russian polling institute Levada, the Russians fear the government more than they fear death.
January 19, 2023
Shifting the focus, engineering paranoia, manufacturing fake threats
Russian State media claim looming Western invasion of Russia, Ukrainian plots to use nuclear bombs, and threats to the Orthodox faith in Ukraine. All to distract from bloody battles, atrocities, civilian deaths and the Dnipro bombing.
September 03, 2017
Shock! Conspiracy! Chemical Attack!
As we have pointed out on many occasions, the pro-Kremlin outlets love conspiracies. And the more shocking these conspiracies are, the better they serve the purposes of the disinformation campaign. For understandable reasons, the most shocking conspiracies include stories about violent death.